时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:简单慢速英语阅读


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。
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articles accompanied by passenger
Aukton
average path length
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benzamidase
biverm
blockworthy
Buckingham's theorem
clastic ratio
courcier
decessit sine prole virile
deep cerebral vein
diamond shaped knurling
doctors of humanities
DSVT
E-rosette
embushments
epithema taiwanensis taiwanensis
etherene
Etruria Ma 1s
executing computer
expert mode command syntax
family Branchiostomidae
felt press machine
fouling organism
fractional void
gamma-ray beam
gape
genus Pistia
ghosten
hatch-back
heterograde distribution
hitchrail
igniting primer
indicated pressure
insulating riser sleeve
juxtaphrenic
Kinnersley
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Lerik
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long run test
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lumber tropical freshwater loadline
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narragansett b.
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peanut-butter-and-jelly
peridinium divergens ehreub
photosynthesizings
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principal surface of accumulation
pseudocercospora catappae
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regionalising
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