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 hostages to fortune
acoustic measurements
acro zone
aglotition
ash-colo(u)red
basal thrust plane
bear enquiry
bifunctional antibody
black-run
boring machines
box topology
broochophony
browser war
bushveld
butcherknives
cabbysshe
camp-outs
Canepina
chopping board
complementary amplitude response
concupiscential
control bus
coronvit
cross sold
die shank
difficult to form
diploicin
donkey drain pipe
duppying
duty-bounds
electronic calendar
eposses
exponent of a stable distribution
fire-raising
forest plots
franklinites
gnarling
handies peaks
in drag
inuloid
izniks
kilclines
Kline
laminiform
lapinised virus
learn mode
light modulated gas discharge tube
likelihood function
metal-insulator-semi-conductor
milldust
mitrs
mixed-flow water-turbine pump
Monroeton
non-cooperative game theory
non-isostatic warping
nonpersistent csma
normative quartz
northenwards
optical sound head
outer-sync
overdriving
pendulation
policy prognosis
polypragmatic
positive homogeneity
positive ion emission
postsynaptic portion
private candidates
prototyping skill
pulls on
quasi-linear partial differential equation
rag-roll
rhizogonium spiniforme(l.)bruch
sagnac-michelson interferometer
sarcophilous
semimalleable
Shark Reef
sit heavy on
Skipskop
slams
spdt
spine pigs
stamp your foot
steam atomizing oil burner
steam separator assembly
Stimpmeters
subranging a/d converter
symmetrical standardstate
target signature measurement
Terniopsis sessilis
the shifts and changes of life
tocopherylamine
toleratest
tolite
tool-post screw
ultraviolet (UV)
unfrock
upon my honour
Uranotaenia macfastanei Edwards
vasculogenic impotence
wood planer
yin collapse