a calculated risk/gambleRISKsomething risky that you do after thinking carefully about what might happen 预料到的风险 The police took a calculated risk in releasing him. 警方冒险一搏,释放了他。
took a calculated risk• The prosecution say Kelly was the second running man, but the police took a calculated risk.• He just took a calculated risk on the spur of the moment.
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