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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antilibrations
antinoises
arcads
artistic skill
arytenoid cartilages
asphalt leveling course
Aurosmirid
Baillarger's sign
Ballybay
believe in sb
benmoxine
best fitting line
blackbushe
Cabernets
carbonnade flamande
Chuvashskaya Respublika
comminating
converted form of value
crandalling
cuerda seca
datalink
dbms (abbreviation)
Desopimon
detailed test objectives
disk of galaxy
Dumitone
Ehekirchen
electroendoscopy
emicymarin
euriflavine
farm market
fat-cow
fenz
FGMOS (floating-gate metal-oxide-semiconductor)
fiber bone
galley filth disposer
generalized polynomial
get off sb's case
give every appearance of
gun turret
h.c.l.
Haines's formula
high energy light weight propellant
house wines
in situ leaching
interrupt signal switch
Ipponmatsu
kasting
learnings
legal Ampere
life-stage
Long Bay
mendillo
mortkin
mytilaria gracilis (weinm.) lindb.
neuromusical
nonreferring
Nordreisa
Nowe Warpno
nuclear harmonic vibration
object oriented program
omnidirectional microphone
organophosphate insecticide
Parafasciolopsis
paraphemia
partial-loading
perceptive-motor performance
Pereskia
phase-delay of difference frequency
photo-memory
pinus pungenss
Proteae
quadrille paper
Qutiabad
reedstop
removal of track
retromolar pad
rincolite (rinkolite)
Rzhevsky
salufer
screw type cooling bed
self-regulating power transformer
slaunder
small intestinal stasis syndrome
soil sewer
solder metal
sound-and-light
standing stock
superstudio
surface tensile force tester
syncyanin
tercel gentles
tiedemann's gland
tiprolisant
Toddalia asiatica
vendor composite rejection chart
virtual logic
virtual manufacturing
ward in chancery
water pressure test for tightness
Wutkon