Few firms will be willing to gamble on new products.
很少有公司愿意在新产品上冒险。
If you own shares in large American corporations, you're a winner in the weak-dollar gamble.
如果你持有美国大公司的股票，那么你会是这场疲软美元投机中的赢家。
The New York Times's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, acknowledged that the move is a gamble: "This is a bet , to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going."
《纽约时报》的出版人阿瑟·苏兹伯格承认，此举是在赌博：“从某种程度上，这是在赌我们所认为的互联网的前进方向。”
So far it looks like Warner Brothers' gamble is paying off.
就目前情况来看，华纳兄弟公司的冒险一博似乎要赢了。
Procter & Gamble has a Corporate Innovation Fund which offers big rewards for high-risk ideas that succeed.
宝洁有一项企业创新基金，该基金用于奖励获得成功的大胆创意。
The article cites the global giant Procter & Gamble as an example, saying a real innovative company should develop an innovation culture and use it as a primary tool for success.
文章以全球巨头宝洁公司为例，称一个真正的创新公司应该发展创新文化，并将其作为成功的主要工具。
German businesses also took a gamble during the downturn.
德国商界在经济衰退时下了一个赌注。
Napoleon took the gamble of pressing on to Moscow, 448 kilometers away.
拿破仑孤注一掷，决定向远在448公里之外的莫斯科进发。
The next gamble was trickier: subjects were only told the total number of cards in the deck.
之后的实验则没那么简单：参与者只是被告知卡片的总数量。
Parents who allow their children to do so may be taking a significant gamble with their health.
那些允许孩子这么做的父母或许正在拿自己孩子的健康做赌注。
"It was totally hit and miss," says Rosemary Osborne of Procter and Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“完全就是一点一点试出来的。”来自俄亥俄州辛辛那提宝洁公司的罗斯玛丽·奥斯本说。
Even when the amount they could lose outweighed the amount they could win, they chose to gamble.
甚至在失去的要比得到的多的时候，她们也倾向于放手一搏。
The first mass-market electric cars are arriving in showrooms. They represent a big gamble for carmakers.
当第一批畅销电动汽车出现在展厅时，汽车制造商们的赌局开始了。
Time may yet show that he should have doubled down on the gamble he took when he accepted Mr Obama's offer.
时间会证实他应该在接受奥巴马录用时下双倍赌注。
But Massmart increased its allure by rushing into the food-retailing business, and the gamble paid off.
可卖什马特却通过大举进攻食品零售行业来增加吸引力，结果成效显著。
I knew the crowd would be tired and bored by the time we got up, but I took a gamble and chose to speak last.
我知道轮到我们的时候，听众肯定已经感到疲劳厌烦了，但我赌了一把，选择最后发言。
If commercial Banks were to be protected, they should not be allowed to gamble in the securities markets.
如果商业银行要得到保护，那就不允许他们在证券市场厮混。
By the time Reagan went to Berlin in 1987, he and Gorbachev had developed enough trust to gamble on change.
到里根1987年去柏林时，他和戈尔巴乔夫已经建立了足够的信任，能让他冒险一试。
For William Procter and James Gamble, marrying the Noris sisters led to one heck of a business partnership.
但是娶了诺里斯姐妹的威廉·普罗克特和詹姆斯·甘布尔却因此成了商业合作伙伴。
When told they had won the first gamble (situation a), 69 per cent of the participants chose to play again.
当他们被告知赢了第一局的时候(情况A)，69%的人选择继续参与。
And yet investors may be willing to gamble, despite the higher fees, because they desperately need high returns.
然而即使费用更高，投资者似乎仍愿意赌上一把，因为他们极其需要高的回报率。
If price-slashing helps Tesco pick up a lot of price-conscious customers, it will prove a worthwhile gamble.
如果降价能使特易购获得许多有省钱意识的客户，那么不妨一试。
“I could find a new job or gamble and put everything on the table to start my own business,” recalled Ms. Davis, 32.
我可以找一份新工作，或者孤注一掷开设自己的企业。”戴维斯女士回忆，她今年32岁。
The move was a gamble, but it brought Mr Jobs back into the fold, much to the excitement of the company's followers.
这一举动是一场赌局，但是却将乔布斯又带回了苹果，而这一举动更激励了公司其他人的斗志。
This was an enormous gamble but he hedged the risk by describing himself as no more than a transmitter of older ideas.
这是一轮巨大的赌注，他把自己扮演成只不过是一个古代人思想的传播者以期规避风险。
Procter &Gamble, a consumer-products giant, recently agreed to use some biochemicals made by Amyris in its products.
而宝洁，日用消费品巨头，最近则同意在产品中使用部分阿米利斯公司生产的生化试剂。
History remembers many examples of second-movers. Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Amazon.com, Canon Inc., JVC and Heinz.
历史见证了无数后行者取得成功的例子，如微软、宝洁、亚马逊、佳能、JVC和亨氏。
But when they were not told the outcome of the first gamble (situation a or b), only 36 per cent wanted to play again.
而不告诉第一局结果的人(情况A或B)，只有36%的人会继续玩下去。
But when they were not told the outcome of the first gamble (situation a or b), only 36 per cent wanted to play again.
而不告诉第一局结果的人(情况A或B)，只有36%的人会继续玩下去。
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