时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:原版英语小短文


英语课

  She went to the casino. A casino is a gambling 1 house. People gamble 2 in a casino. They take a chance with their money. They hope they will win. Sometimes they do. But usually they lose. It was her birthday. She took $100 to the casino. She went to the change booth. She got change for her money. She got 400 quarters for her $100. The quarters were in paper rolls. Forty quarters were in each roll. She put the rolls into a plastic bucket. She carried the bucket over to a slot 3 machine. She loved slot machines. She opened a roll of quarters. She put a quarter in the machine. She pulled down on the handle. She looked at the screen. Give me three cherries, she thought. Or give me three bananas. Or give me three apples. Three of anything is a winner. Two cherries, or one cherry, is a loser. She played for several hours. Sometimes she won. She felt good when she won. But usually she lost. Finally, she lost all her quarters. She went home. She spent $100, but she had fun. I will play again on my next birthday, she thought.



n.赌博;投机
  • They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
  • The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。
n.冒险;v.赌博,孤注一掷
  • Setting up this business was a bit of a gamble.开办这样的公司有点冒险。
  • Drive carefully and don't gamble with your life.小心驾驶,别拿你的生命冒险。
n.(口)位置,职位,狭长孔,狭槽
  • Put a coin in the slot.将硬币放入投币口。
  • He's been given a regular ten-minute slot on the radio.电台定期给他十分钟的节目广播时间。
学英语单词
A block
acetomeroctol
adamski
adsorptive complex wave
aiBpocampus nudus
alpha-globulin
anecdotes
angel pie
anti-reflective glass
anti-Semitically
apostles of germany
at all
audit of accounting basis
automatic dial telephone set
banul maracine (rumania)
bathfords
bend relief
breadboard construction
buoy line
call data save
Cambridge sausage
Canada jay
career awareness
cellular blue nevus
center finding
cheateth
come afoul of
community-based-rehabilitation
compotist
congenital lactase deficiency
corporate licence
crib breakwater
crushing teeth
cryptamnesia
cytokeratin
dog day
drilling footage
dry-type evaporator
ectosome
explosing-proof lift
exstrophies
farm girls
fast follower jammer
gap series
generator pump
gervit
granulae
haliplus sharpi
hexenoses
hip token
hydraulic efficiency flow control
itsf
Kaufering
Lignieres' reaction
linear equation in one variable
malformation by defect
mangan-uralite
manufacturing economy
many-stage
mass production trial
Methoxyacetate
mezuza
miniload system
mitre boxes
nereides
order Carnivora
pastel shade
perambulated
positive reserve
powershifting
pseudo-array
pseudodominant
putative variety
Rainsville
rhodium(iii) sulfate
Santa Sofia
Saprosma crassipes
security sterling
self ignorance
semipolar bond
septulum
side plough tripper
skullcup
source database
statistic economics
STGC
super atmospheric pressure
superabundancy
superheroically
tableau economic
thick-cut
thrice-cock
took offence
toroidal pinch
Trecate
trigonum mentale (mandibul?)
unadvisely
underdeveloping
vigula
waiter's assistant
well-humoured
yellow rockets