Alternatively , write out a schedule and make bets with a few friends that you 'll stick to it .
或者,写出一张进度表,与几个朋友打赌你能赶上进度。
Dicker says that is primarily because almost all oil investments being sold by the big investment banks are long trades - bets that the price will go up .
dicker指出这主要是由于大部分的石油投资都出自于大型投资银行的长期交易,且打赌价格会向上走。
And people who are trying to lose weight or finish a project will sometimes make bets with their friends so that if they don 't deliver on their promise it 'll cost them money .
而且试图减肥或完成项目的人有时会跟朋友打赌,这让如果他们履行不了诺言就要掏钱了。
They 've had elaborately contrived plots involving bets , tricks and lies . They 've featured endless misunderstandings , all of which could have been cleared up if the characters had ever been honest with each other .
Less than a year ago , diplomats in the middle east were taking bets on the likelihood of a us military attack on iran , with some assessing it at higher than 50 per cent .
But the script is sprinkled with echoes of goldman : churchill schwartz bets against markets that it makes , including subprime mortgages ; its credit-default swaps are bailed out at par ; and it has friends at the treasury .
Today problem gamblers write contracts with casinos banning them from the premises . And people who are trying to lose weight or finish a project will sometimes make bets with their friends so that if they don 't deliver on their promise it 'll cost them money .