venture

n.
1. adventure,hazard,risk 冒险，风险，危险。
△ Mac.1.3.90: “and when he reads / Thy personal venture inthe rebels’ fight.”i.e.when he reads the account ofyour daring exploits in the battle against Macdon-wald，他一听说你在对叛将作战中的英勇勋绩。
△ 2H.IV. Epi7 (6): “But to the purpose,and so to the venture.”i.e. I’ll risk it. 但是言归正传，还是孤注一掷吧。2. hazard,risk,random 风险，冒险，任意行动。
at a venture: at random,recklessly,on conjecture 任意地，胡乱地，凭猜测。
△ 2H.IV.1.1.57: “He was somehilding fellow that had stolen / The horse he rode on,and,upon my life,/ Spoke at a venture.”他准是个什么卑鄙家伙.连他骑的那匹马也是偷来的，我拿我的性命担保，他一定是胡说八道。
3. commercial adventure 商业冒险。
△ Mer.1.1.15:“had I such venture forth.”如果我也有这么一笔冒险买卖在海外。
4. commercial speculation 商业投机。
ill venture: unsuccessful commercial speculation. un-successful trading voyage. unlucky sending out ofmerchant vessels 失败的商业投机，失败的海上贸易，倒霉的派遣商船出海。
△2H.IV. Epi.13 (11):“if like an ill ven-ture it come unluckily home.”如果像是一次失败的海上冒险生意，船倒霉地回来。
5. cargo at risk in a sea voyage,shipload （在海上冒险航运的）船货，船只装载量。
△ 2H.IV.2.4.67 (63):“There’sa whole merchant’s venture of Bordeaux stuff inhim.”他那肚子里装满了整整一船的波尔多酒。
6. ❶risk,adventure 冒险。
❷commercial enterprisewith an unpredictable outcome 冒险生意。
△ Mer.1.3.92 (91): “This was a venture. sir,that Jacob servedfor，”先生，雅各做的是一桩冒险的生意。