2012_05_20 Gambit n. 備註打開或重定向對話 Any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.

Word of the Day for Sunday, May 20, 2012
gambit \GAM-bit\, noun:
1. A remark made to open or redirect a conversation.
2. Chess. An opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
3. Any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.
The leader was eyeing him up and down, shrewdly calculating. "Thirsty as all that, are you, my friend?" he asked. Gratefully Bomilcar seized upon the gambit. “Thirsty enough to buy everyone here a drink,” he said.
 -- Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome
But in other cases the gambit may be a dependent clause introducing or rounding off some larger unit whose illocutionary force it helps to establish.
 -- Thierry Fontenelle, Practical Lexicography: A Reader
Gambit is primarily a term used in chess. It came from the Italian idiom gambetto meaning "to trip up."

GAMBIT\的GAM位\，名詞：

1。備註打開或重定向對話。
2。國際象棋。一開場球員在尋求獲得一些優勢，通過犧牲一個棋子或一塊。
3。任何迴旋由哪一個旨在獲得優勢。

領導盯上了他，下來，精明計算。 “渴了這一切，是你，我的朋友嗎？”他問。感激Bomilcar的開局抓住。 “渴了，夠買這裡的每個人喝一杯，”他說。
- 科琳麥卡洛，在羅馬的第一人

但在其他情況下，開局可能是從屬子句，引進或關閉一些較大的單位，其言外力量，它有助於建立四捨五入。
- 亨利，實用辭書豐特奈爾：一位讀者

開局主要是在國際象棋中使用的一個術語。它是從哪裡來的的意大利的成語gambetto意義，“絆倒了。”

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