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。
学英语单词
a lady by birth
absorbefacients
Aicardi
al samha
albertine
amalgamated consolidation
amniotic fluid aspiration
Apodytes
asynchronous device
baaders
Bach-Tamade theory
bani-sadr
beat note signal
Caacupe
canonical nonthermal source
capillary blood sampling
cavaleriei
Chernak
chlorimpiphenine
club fungus
criteria of inverse probability
curry plant
deadline scheduling
dependent labour
depensatory
dialup network adapter
Does the back door have a lock on it
double-service rack
edelfosine
endville
falling sickness
fan-back windsor chair
fashion seam
femismo
fiducial point
first problem of Cousin
five-seat cabriolet
flareside
functionaries
furethrin
glycerin-gelatin peptone
Hata Tsutomu
hated on
heyst
high fog
Ikitsuki-shima
institutional advancement
insurance for old age
inter-cell
interstate carrier
ists
jigging stenter
jumpcuts
Kelloggsville
kelotomy
kynars
lennardson
life boat compass
lift curve slope
maculotriton serrialis digitalis
marine attaching organism
metronymic tribe
multishell
mummification necrosis
Nephrosialidosis
network test
nonvocational
not care a rap
nuclei cerebellares
pandora larva
PCO2ART
perfect white body
perithyroiditis
pet shops
Pleurospermum govanianum
plowtered
polar variation
pourpoure
purpuramide
refilling of ballast
rim of a cup
road travel
russelsheim
Schefflera elata
shape design sensitivity
slow and steady
smokeless zone
spanien
spring pressure gauge
stagnant pool
ston
szentagothai
talkbox
television shooting script
thanks for your coming
Trevithick
trihalogen acid
tullgren funnel
unamortized interest during construction
Universal life
unthought-of
uredo miscanthi-sinensis