时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:原版英语小短文


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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'melt-through
acridine alkaloid
adverb of concession
anti-satellite
applications programming
aquatic animal community
architectural rendering
auditting department
beef-brained
bromide silver
Catalan number
Celestra
celotome
choroidal branches of third ventricle
cinetographic
circumcellular
co-expressed
compound epicyclic reduction gear
corrosion of metals
cupboard button
de broglie hypothesis
de-select
delivery receipt of container
Economic Development Board
edge turning
electric-furnace
enspection
entomopox virus
entrance stagnation temperature
epania atra
extemporisations
fine semoline
flow sequencing
Fukude
genus Hyaena
give one to understand
half-concentric resonator
hayekian
heading geological control
heliolamp
homofermentative lactobacillium
homoiotransplant
insist on doing something
irrecordable
joint-owner
kium
Kvanefjord
Labiate carolla
law of average rate of profit
linebackas
lupard
Lysimachia crispidens
marasmius aurantioferrugineus
metercal
millionairedom
multiple resources
Muntiacus
node name mapping table
outblazing
outstanding question
Patergassen
piercing plug
Pius IX
pleasing lacewings
pressure boost
pseudoplastic hysteresis loop
public packet switching network
pyroracemic acid
rachitic osteoporosis
resort city
right angled drive propulsion system
Sauri, Hill
schermetyev
scolytidaes
secondary magnesium phosphate
self-contained breathing apparatus
semi-intensive
semiquintiles
Shona, Eilean
side-feet
soft sells
Solar Maximum Mission
SPANA
stage of heteronomy
steam hose
superconducting
tail of dentate gyrus
take two to tango
target dividend per share
tetraarylstannane
third radiation belt
three dimensional concentrator
top surge
topsin-M
Trans-Karakoram Tract
transverse optical vibration mode
underwater communications system
ununiversitied
use with
Velazquez
workplace design
zocle