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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ammonial solution
astonished
augen-chert
awdl
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bezzia murina
Breen
budgetary criterion
bysp
Cactus League
Campanian Stage
cell inclusion
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chop-leach process
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clinostat
coil coating
corrosion fatigue testing machine
corticium roseum
cosmic evolution
cytotechnologists
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digital display scope
dimensional modeling
dimethylzinc
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dorsal vessel
elizabethton
Esfahan
Euro share market
exossate
Facebook us
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flocculation point
foot damp qi
fusible link PROM
gap distance
give preference to
goods-out on consignment
Gray Thursday
Haemanthus toxicarius
homogeneous nonstationary process
in gear
isoalloxazin
kick-turn
krautheimer
laser tuning
lattice homing
limitings
lipinsky
liquefied cheese
longitudinal dike
maker use
mamiania coryli (batsch) cesati et de notaris
maximally specific conjunctive generalization
mean-average boiling point
Nampa
non-degenerate parametric amplifier
nonorthogonal
obligatio dividua
oriental radishes
ovda
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over-view
Phyllobothrioidea
popik
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quick-growing plantation
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scimedx
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stratum neuronorum piriformium
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to name
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tunnel heading
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unwarranted killing
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weinand
wetting resistance