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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Achilles's tendon
acoustic generator
air refuelling
angiotensins
anti-abolitionism
array slice
astroponics
atalantioides
attribution theory of ability
azo pigment
balloon tire gauge
Ban Wang Samrong
banker's margin
beam dyeing
beta chain
Bhalki
bone mineralization
Bulgheria, Mte.
calculation of storage
capital redemption yield
Chamberlain, Wilt
characters per frame
chelonia mydas japonica
Christy, Howard Chandler
cobaltic fluoride
cone roll shifter
devaquet
DI (disable interrupt)
dipygus parasiticus
dislocation mucleation
dynamic track irregularity
earthshell
elastic arch
elementary entity
first epistle of johns
fixly
flabelli-
flat-band capacitance
fully withdrawn control rod
furrow forming wheel
globus abdominalis
goat herders
heckling yarn
high temperature storage life test
hydraulic powered hose reel
hyperstriatum
ileocecal papilla
inishshark (shark i.)
intelligence communication
iron-bound coast
Jennifer Lopez
Jones matrix
Kaiparowits Plateau
keep-alive electrode
Kosterёvo
laminae albae
leakage hum
linear frequency response
loading accident
longitudinal rigidity
low visibility operations
mains-frequency synchronous motor
makes sense
malevante
matching of stages
medicales
Milazzo, G.di
mite society
moss-starch
nitrate varnish
non-ionic
oil trough
on the further side
operation indicating and alarming lamp
outromanced
pashtoes
peak of flood
potential buoyancy
product-form queuing network
rad-equivalent
Ramean
real arithmetic
requisitor
resplices
rewasher
rt-pcrs
Saharanpur
Scleria psilorrhiza
seat back cushion
Slovenske Konjice
soft formation with sticky layer
speaker-hearer
split-brain syndrome
steel frame mill plant
suitcase-size
surmountable fatigue
syncotyledons
tanner tong
temulentive
thioaniline
woolsey
zero point theorem