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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a soldier's battle
all risks
anabaric
artreiograph
banu
batch material
board position
boeke
cane trash compost
carburetants
cardiac lobe
cariniform
catoptrophorus semipalmatuss
Central Bank of Somalia
chargeing potential
civil aviation epidemiology
complex hybridization
crest of a wave
critical phase
current operating performance income statement
dervish
detouring
di-iron enneacarbonyl
duckbills
empyroform
equilibrium, temperature
equiprobability curve
Eurasian magpie
ewage
exceed the time limit
farlow
fenoderee
fetations
fettle
file volatility
friedel-crafts acylation
frontotemporal dementia
furnace oil
glory in something
Goldap
greenaugh microscope
ground-controlled approach
gulleys
halke
hard-favoured
highway cycle
hyperplastic pulpitis
IDT
improvement costs
in the prison
inoramant cost
internal linguistics
irrenderable
Kilimani
laying rate
leptacline
localisation principles
low temperature coefficient re-gulator
man among men
Mayamalavagowla
minimum envelope curve
moulded plastic pirn
Navaglobe
naverage
non-aggression treaty
once-large
oriented path
out-migration rate
palygorskite
periodic planing
planomural
quadrature-axis transient short circuit time constant
rationalized brightness
Rawi, Ko
regional metasomatism
right-hand threads
rip saw
ritual girl
Sanmarinese
saw tooth thread
scyllite
sidransky
siphon refuelling pump
sludge acid
sorry
split-hair accuracy
Stalham
static magnetic field therapy
take a whiff or two
taperd ball end mill
termination routine
the Ghost
thrips tabaci
travelbee
Trevena
tropical continental air mass
unballasting
upright spindle winder
Venorutone
viscous flow state
Weizsaecker's theory
wool-winder