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
a race of
A-Van
air-line lubricator
all-trunks-busy
antiseismic
archaicizing
autoscanning device
axo-axonic synapse
balance between silkworm and mulberry output
bertil
blowing method
break-before-make contacts
bridge sidewalk
carcinoma of head of pancreas
Carex laeta
channel roof slab
chaotic region
chfc
chloro-erythroblastoma
co-oxidation
coat stands
colonic polyposis
compartment wall
d'alembertian operator
dimensionality of sufficient statistics
direct-rope haulage
Draba piepunensis
dry wood beetle
duck's bill bit
extra warp thread
farquar
fell-field
flow concentration
forced draft fan
fumaritine
generalized oldham coupling
genus Angraecum
genus Polybotria
gheld
glory days
gotten their hands on
goujons
ichtbyosaur
ithink
janitorial
kakebuton
Karanovo
Karlstein
kiety?ite (apatite)
Kuybysheva, Mys
leaching liquor
light weight construction
lightning-protection engineering
lonco
magnussons
Meconta
medicisterna
micinicate
model psychosis
norodoms
not have a snowball's chance in hell
opiumism
Peloponnesus
photospectrometric
polypite
potassium chloroplumbate
raising fund
rap tor
rate of delivery
receive ... with open arms
red daikon
reference well
right-and-left-hand core
rounds
Salcantay
selection response
semi-humid
shear-leach process
short-memory radiation detector
simplex signalling system
since the advent of
sinurog (philippines)
small-scale problem
splanade
staunch and strong tight
success
syndrome of heat accumulated in large intestine
teleiotic
There you are!
thermsac
thin down
three degree of freedom
total scalp avulsion injury
trabeculae ararhnoideae
two-wedge bearing
variable-frequency induced polar
wants of
wave mechanicss
Weber dynamometer
Xiamaling Formation
you set me up
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