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She soon learned to punt.
她很快就学会了撑方头平底船。
The speculators blamed by officials for precipitating the crisis may now be the only people willing to take a punt on Greece.
被官方指责为助长了危机的投机者现在可能仅仅就是那些还愿意在希腊政府身上下赌注的一小撮。
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.
这两家公司一直是在一片繁荣中摇晃，不管是债权人还是雇员都在以支付债务和大量的医疗保险的方式，拿自己的未来作赌注。

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，这些书中的某些东西，我们可以频繁的在,《摩西五经》中看到，那是上帝的赌注。
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But this time God realizes--and again this is where God's got to punt all the time.
但是，这一次上次意识到,上帝又开始了下注了。
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Conventional football wisdom says to punt and play it safe when your team has the lead.
FORBES: Play to Win!

(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