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 good day's work
actual source
andijon viloyati
Anhaltsberg
aragonites
at loggerheads with
auscultoscope
beat-frequency oscillator
breathing control center
bulbshaped
cadmium amidosulfonate
calculated ideal value
callispa tsoui
CD Video
china pencil
Chorokhi
circular migration
colloid lyophobic
common mode signal
complex modulation
cooking chocolate
creepjoint
cut pile velvet
dance to someone's piping
Dexaspan
double range instrument
Eckardt points
ecological risks
education channel
electric logging meter
farnogram
fiegehen
frequent-flier program
gavialidaes
give a handle for
green vision
harshaw
heat-rigor points
high-unemployment
hormone-sensitive type
hybridiser
incrementation parameter
indomitabilities
infantile malnutrition
inquire into something
intraperiod
investigating judge
iodide-process titanium
Jaburu
jiqui
karl-marx-stadt (chemnitz)
kilo-volt ampere (kva)
ku klux klans
low yield per mu
maximal power principle
medicinal paraffin oil
metallic colloid
Mimosamycin
Miranda, R.
misguider
mobility speed
narcine prodorsalis
nibble mode dram
non-marketeds
nonmixing
numstring
ommoral nature
pairpoint
pellock
photospheric spectrum
plant-pot
quill faceplate
radio climatology
ramanujan
rate of returns
ray initials
re-fit
rehnberg
retrospectory
reverse merger
Sabinian
San Giovanni Teatino
Schmalkaldic War
scode
series aiding connection
snapsuit
specular reflection light
speed-muller
station-yard communication
statistical from band spectra
sufflaminated
Taeniorhynchus
taken it
titanaugite
tractor resistance
translator device
Tufftriding
under-water body
unsound theory
Vladimirskoye
Wiko
yangzi