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
AAHD
abdominal fin
acetylene gas cylinder
admissible number
agglutination
aircraft cross-servicing
american beauty
amilcar
antipatriarchy
aquatic star
arames
aristida chinensis
automatic weather observing system (awos)
Blackstripe
Borgo a Mozzano
Boston(cream)pie
Callimachus
cast urea-formaldehyde plastic
Ceratopharyngeal
chloeia flava
chronometric encoder
cipher block chain (CFB) mode
clavicytherium
coherent
composition decomposition
conara junction
continuous dynamic system
conventional jurisdiction
counterrecoil piston
cross type
cylindrical electrical machine
decim.
decolonised
display attribute
Eastasian province
easy-to-use word processing
epidermoid sarcoma
eserine salicylate
exomoons
external metacarpal artery (or lateral volar metacarpal artery)
food hygiene
genus Balaenoptera
giallo antico
grazing wound
grotty
harmonic mean distance
heavy landing
hemodynamic
high speed shutter
high-frequency erasure
hornified
indenter velocity
injection moulded
Jungner cell
labour discipline
light experimental helicopter
limit ring
marryed
mastic filler
maxwell-boltzman energy-distribution law
midland-odessa
misstopped
moorcoal
Nebraska
non-intimate
nonsymmetrical distribution
notoriety
picture album
Pingüino, I.
pointwise Lagrangian
primary reduced zone
privatdocents
prolongability
pseudobile canaliculi
Ramus acetabularis
riser base
romantic guitars
rose madder
sculptor-in-ordinary
series of rocks
slag breaking
slot contraction factor
soil structure grade
starting crank
steering apparatus steerer
step-type recording wave gauge
stuff sth into
Tagobo Foulbé
tamil nadus
terminate the pleadings
testatrixes
time wages system
timor-leste
timorous
tufted titmouse
unasked
undercut stroke
vacuum-controlled gear shifting
valmore
viatiques
white oceanic shark
wine blend