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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a necessary house
aberly
agitatos
agne
al arin
alarm message
alteration-pseudomorphism
antemedial
antiromantic
archives internationales de la danse (aid)
Astronomer Royal
back money
be creative of
Berestechko
bioinformatician
biometric data
bisie
breeches joint
cadaques
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
ceilidh
chlorglypropamide
chump blocking
clamp buffer
Columbia City
compensator downhole(bumper sub)
compound turbine engine
crepe de chine twist
CSAVP
deconcentrator
dirties
efficiency of capital
Eleusine coracana
enclined
Endogenina
Farber's tests
flue gas vent
gap concept
gardenalelas
gatemouth
gathering and digging arm loader
gaudy-day
gilles de la tourette syndromes
gumly
have an edge on one's appetite
high speed brake
high-order byte
high-precision geodesy
Horezm
in-line meter
inquisitor angustus
Karyotye
langia zenzeroides formosana
light beam splitter
macula luteas
manila papers
metal removing efficiency
metapyrocatechases
microprocessor CRT terminal
milli ampere
minority position
multipartite
news screening
nient comprise
nuclear engineering
Nyquist method
Nyquist stability theorem
oil dye
Oxyphenyletbylamine
passenger shelter
peacock blues
Perry Mason moment
pharmacosiderite
Plöckenstein (Plechý)
puandtl-gauret rule
public-safety frequency bands
purslain
rail service
recover losses of compensation
reel-twist crimping
reflex center
riboflavin kinase
semduramicin
semicolloid
sensory papillae
Sinjār, Jab.
splendidest
state court
statistical evaluation
steel thread
superstandard propagation
surface mean size
swagler
switch-off potential
thymoprivous
tidology
tow bars
undevitrified
Venae inferiores cerebri
vocal command
water-collecting
wesselman