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。
学英语单词
Aatrex
amorphous memory array
animal cell
AOG
Auchter
back-formation
bacterioplankton
batting order
beat-frequency oscillartor
bedrit
blue cap
bring...to light
bullyingly
cap nut
carbonitriding medium
carpet yarn
cell-keeper
charge out
chlorane
climax episode
coded b-frame
come into possession
commercial Diesel cycle
computer studies
corresponding lines
crystal plane indices
d.i.y.
dicranota (rhaphidolabis) brunettii
double tee iron
end of steel
erations
eurhythmia
expiate
external-device address
family xenicidaes
gas turbo electric drive
Great Gatsby
haemoflavoprotein
harmful gas and vapo(u)r
head-scratching
hirohitoes
i-preoved
in the mail
independent clauses
iron straps
iron(iii) methylarsonate
kymograph
lactamic acid
leptocephalus
lip fissure
lithoclast
micro-donation
Microstomy
n-p-n type
naturaliter
need not have
new cuisine
nil-ductility transition temperature (ndt)
nippeth
non-trivial functional dependence
oil fuel transfer pump
Old Icelandic
opposite
partitive color mixing
ping signal
pluteus (pl.plutei)
quantitative directives
query languages
Quincke's
rail-mounted tower crane
rhachitic
Sageretia horrida
schriftrunite
schulzite
searal-by-character
SEMIONOTIDAE
Sendaung
sermonish
sinew-shrunk
Sinosenecio palmatilobus
Siquijor, Prov.of
species rhythm
split field generator
steel cap and plastic barrel
swerd
tapered bit
technohorror
three-way card
thrusher
tidal potential
time of satellite perigee passing
Townshend, C.
TPD
tract
typhoidphtheria
Tîchît
unstable air (mass)
voyagers
Woolhope Limestone
Zambezi River
zero trace
zygotic nucleus