roulette

roulette — 名詞

1. a casino game on a spinning wheel with coloured numbered slots, where players be

1.名詞B1
釋義

輪盤賭

賭場中用旋轉輪盤賭博的遊戲

a casino game on a spinning wheel with coloured numbered slots, where players bet on where a bouncing ball will land

例句

Xiu placed her chips on red thirteen and watched the croupier spin the roulette wheel.

Xiu 把她的籌碼押在紅色十三號上，看著荷官轉動輪盤。

collocation: place chips / place a bet

The casino added two new roulette tables to meet the growing demand from visitors.

這間賭場增加了兩張新的輪盤桌，以應付遊客日益增長的需求。

passive: roulette tables were added

文法句型

play roulette

bet on + [number/colour] at roulette

常見錯誤

❌I played the roulette at the casino.
✅I played roulette at the casino.
💡The definite article the is not used before game names like roulette, poker, or blackjack.

2. a situation in which the result depends entirely on luck, with no way to predict

2.名詞B2
釋義

冒險

結果全憑運氣的狀況

a situation in which the result depends entirely on luck, with no way to predict or influence what will happen

例句

Starting a business with no plan is financial roulette — win big or lose everything.

沒有妥善規劃就創業就像一場財務輪盤賭——你可能大賺一筆，也可能血本無歸。

metaphorical: financial roulette

Every winter, the mountain drivers play roulette with the icy roads and sudden snowstorms.

每年冬天，山區駕駛人都在結冰的道路和突來的暴風雪中賭運氣。

pattern: play roulette with [danger]

同義詞
  • gamble

    broader — can refer to any risky action, not just a situation

  • lottery

    emphasises that the outcome is completely random

  • risk

    more neutral; roulette suggests a higher, more dramatic degree of chance

反義詞
  • certainty

    direct opposite in terms of predictability

  • sure thing

    informal opposite — something whose outcome is guaranteed

文法句型

(something) is roulette

play roulette with + [something valuable]

用法筆記

Always appears in figurative or metaphorical contexts — the underlying image is the unpredictability of the casino game. Common with the verb play or the phrase feel like / be like.

常見錯誤

❌The roulette of the weather ruined our picnic.
✅The weather was like roulette
💡sunny one minute, pouring the next.' — This sense needs a comparison structure (like roulette, feel like roulette) rather than using roulette as a standalone noun.

roulette — 動詞