punt

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She soon learned to punt.
她很快就學會了撐方頭平底船。
The speculators blamed by officials for precipitating the crisis may now be the only people willing to take a punt on Greece.
被官方指責爲助長了危機的投機者現在可能僅僅就是那些還願意在希臘政府身上下賭注的一小撮。
These were firms that barely stayed afloat in the boom and both creditors and employees were taking a punt on their promise to pay debts and generous health-care benefits.
這兩家公司一直是在一片繁榮中搖晃，不琯是債權人還是雇員都在以支付債務和大量的毉療保險的方式，拿自己的未來作賭注。

Second of all in this story we see something that we'll see repeatedly in the Pentateuch, and that is that God has to punt a bit.
第二，這些書中的某些東西，我們可以頻繁的在,《摩西五經》中看到，那是上帝的賭注。
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But this time God realizes--and again this is where God's got to punt all the time.
但是，這一次上次意識到,上帝又開始了下注了。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選

Conventional football wisdom says to punt and play it safe when your team has the lead.
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(BOAT) a long, narrow boat with a flat bottom and square ends, moved by a person standing at one end and pushing on the bottom of a river with a pole
(KICK) a way of kicking the ball in rugby or American football, by dropping it from your hands and kicking it before it hits the ground, or a powerful kick in football that causes the ball to go a long way
(RISK) to risk money by buying or supporting something, in the hope of making or winning more money
(MONEY) the standard unit of money used in Ireland before the introduction of the euro
(KICK) (in rugby or American football) to kick the ball after you have dropped it from your hands and before it touches the ground, or (in football) to kick the ball powerfully so that it goes a long way
(BOAT) to travel in a punt

In American football and rugby, a punt is a kick where you drop the ball and then kick it before it reaches the ground, so that it goes a long way.
Punt is also a verb.
an open flat-bottomed boat with square ends, propelled by a pole &rarrsee quant
to propel (a boat, esp a punt) by pushing with a pole on the bottom of a river, etc
to gamble bet
a gamble or bet, esp against the bank, as in roulette, or on horses
(formerly) the Irish pound