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 man born of woman
Ad def.an.
adverbhood
AFAD
Aguai
alter-ego
analog information
anopheles (cellia) ludlowae
atomic energy control
bassein r.
belted galloway
bio-chemical
blew them away
bobbi
Branch Davidians
bridge callus
British horsepower
by the scratch of a pen
catecholase
class oomycetess
clomped
colour-box
comprador note
Council of Ten
cribbles
depot ship
developer's toolkit
disulfuram
dramshop law
drumthwacket
dubia
ethnocides
expressive meaning
Fenton bearing metal
ferralarch
fluidic gyro
fossil-fuelled
garamycin sulfate
gcm
glass state
go overboard for
gylfi
head-bang
heptacene
hollowes
hyotes
idebwe
ignition-point
imperialls
in clause
in trim
intraepithelial gland
lactuca
language teaching system
Limu Atoll
marquisy
maslens
methyl isobutyl ketazine
nativistic
Ngau Tau Kok
non-statutory audit engagement
nonsegregated mixing
North Galactic Cap
nuclear-instrument thimble
oral diaphragm
package number
palirisa cervina formosana
pass around
pedigree egg-cage
percival circuit
perforated slip
phylogenetically
plant mite
polyhydric alcohol
potassium aurobromide
presume upon
printer's flower
quock
Radermachera ignea
resilience energy
Scharnebeck
Scottish Baronial
securitas
sepracors
shifting snow
silicon on insulator substrate
sodium fluoborate
specific combustion intensity
spiderweb clot
staggered intermittent
surreverence
sustained note
switch-back
take up an occupation
torten
trader's schedule
tricyclopentadienyl-chlorouranium
unsinister
Vaxclusters
wave forecasting
Zack Morris phone
zinc-rich primer