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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abdominal fins
aircraft controller
Almadies, Pte.des
avisn tuberculosis
b-29s
Barrisdale
beau joueur
Berle
bottom side discharge car
brackish water species
buleka
cachoeiras de macacu
castleman disease
Chronoperates paradoxus
cinch marks
cir X-1
clove-stems oil
continuous bleed type
core cutting machine
costusoside
counter flow
cylindrocarpon tonkinense
demoter
discreditings
donen
double-sided assembly
effective true airspeed
empacho
endoduction
fuckfests
gaelen
gambling hells
gene clone
get one's walking walking orders
gliogenesis
global position system
hanford works
harbison
Hibiscus farragei
hollingsworths
hydrogasifier
Hällbybrunn
iduronate-2-sulfatase
in stock
individual disposition
inner macro
ivaarite
JASSM
kinodynamic
lantzmen
Leszno
lightning projecter
mesogastrium
minitunnel
monophasic
multi-address instruction code
Ogi-jima
oil depot
old rice
osmanthus wines
outduel
pachometer
perdetermined motion time
Phanat Nikhom
piezolectric crystal unit
pillery
pley-e
pneumatic impact wrench
poly-cotton
polychloropree foam
polyplax reclinata
power plant specific mass
primary moment
principle of undifferentiated encoding
re-introductions
retention characteristic
rogachev
rough grinding
screen opening
sea fishery
semisweet
sharemarkets
shifting bonds
ship's machiner
silicules
siu mai
slack(ness)
slide caliper
step-parent
stray losses
swollen consumption demand
São Romão
testicle (or testis )
trapshootings
treasury departments
trimexiline
unprofessionalising
viraginous
water ballet
window-shopping
zinc diphenyl