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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adjustable crank pin
aerobiosis
agricultural extension
aleksei
aligning treatment
analytical principles
at one's own sweet will
at the scene investigation
awakens to
bedded plant
betine
blanket cleaning device
boron nitride based high temperature material
brethered
burels
chief flensing-man
cimicifuga acerina c. tanaka
cipel
closed gilt
cloth brown
coffee beans tincture
color phase chart
column warp
coon hounds
coppice knoll
cynicalness
deck passage
derivative
dyer's alkanet
electrocortical potential
emtrizamide
engine jacket
financial services subsector
force-balance type pressure gauge
fragment ion
from the point of view of
garpikes
germanium deposit
GRTP
Hiep Ninh
high frequency noise
Hólaheidhi
inlocation
Janus cat
kerygma and catechesis
line type filter
link register
louisa
manager of tournament
masculinized
McMeekin's method
mining opencut
numskulls
Oberasbach
order xiphosuras
otolithiasis
photo sensing marker
plimmed
polyoxyethylene alkyl thioether
pondure
pressure anemometer
pressure-plate
rare earth cobalt permanent magnet
respirations
rhabdomyoma
right turning bottom
safety exit
save our souls
scaine
scatted
secondary containment
sorabi
sorting and merging file
St Albert
standard modular system of package
statutes
steam valve controller
stochastic computer
stonds
superconducting transformer
synaptene stage
thermometer reader
Three removes are as bad as a fire.
three-digit
Titlis
transdermic absorption
transnatured
trope
trowsers
two-cylinder compound locomotive
unlitigated
vaccinum pestis vivum
veritcal displacement
volumetric(al)analysis
warthogs
water base foam
water-tight hatch cover
weak electric field area
wheatsheaves
whirne
winningtons
Yamanashi-ken