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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-etin
active resistance
advantage in
anlock
antifertilizin
asiprenol
backbook authority
be caught in the toils
Belovezhskaya Forest
bestway
boningtons
breaking up with
bronze welding
caloriss
cardoens
check line
coal seam infusion
communal goal
controlled energy flow machine
copes
cost-driven
covariant of a curve
cross crank
cuprocassiterite
daidai blossom
decisive move
department of oral medicine
diploid apogamy
earliest occurrence time
EB-virus
echo logging
emplacements
epifluorescence microscopes
etisus electra
fenolax
fine gradation
formal capitalization of reserve
Fougamou
Grossdeuben
hard faced bit
have one's eyes about one
heating load data for load estimation
horse-racing
injuiy
input/output distributed processing
interblock comparison
interframe coding technique
japan sea
Japanese spitz
joint snake
khushkhash
Kinesiophobia
Kirjath-jearim
lactron
Lamepon A
methylcyclohexene
midperpendicular plane
mighty
mint law
moke-emitting diode
murexide tests
neighborly
nonequilibrium model
oceanophysics
Omo Ranch
orphanizing
otaki
overflow tube
Padoue
passable bill
pernis ptilorhynchus orientalis
Pleissa
preference trip circuit
principal raw material
ramus palpebralis inferior
rationed grazing
reinterpreters
remote-control switch
retroflexio
Rhipsalis
roog
Ruski
schedule of departmental overhead costs
scirrhous carcinoma of stomach
sea-water damage
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shoe drill
showboats
simian virus 40
step-wise replication
subterete
terrigenous humus
tithingman
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tuberculoanaphylaxis
tumbling stars
turtle shell frame
unmember
Welsbach burners
widemouth blindcat
wool-drag
Yield Curve Risk