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
abundance of labor
active addition
active drive
air-cooling apparatus
all metal passenger car
angiocarpic development
aperture-to-medium coupling loss
Austrasians
back order memorandum
Ban Mok Lok
beaumontag(u)e
beggarish
bestest
beta-pleated sheet
bronze-red
bylly
catalyst distillation
controlled-effects nuclear weapon
convolute structure
corkies
cross prisms
Decortin
defrothing agent
dingaling
Dings magnetic separator
Domes-booke
electron-deficient
emanationism
epidotised
external centerless grinding
franguloside
galefs
giardiases
growsome
gynous
hanjies
hay fever
historical economic geography
image file
inosine-5'-phosphate
insidiosity
interior extent
island-hop
joana
joby
knotted fabric
last trading day
lateral pharyngotomy
light switches
logko
mah-jongs
Maksutov telescope
minor-league clubs
modcom
Mohpāni
myricaria laxa w.w.sm.
non-integrable equation
noncash circulation
ocean grey
osmolytes
outstanding design
palaver hut
Panicum trypheron
parachute shroud
playspot
priming materials
publisher
quaketail
quoi hai
reverse jet
Scheffau
screwed plug
SD-BS
secondary compartment line
shacktowns
shouting matches
sidhu
slap pass
special-delivery
superior radioulnar articulation
sweathouses
swing diameter of work
TCBQ
thermostated bath
throughput of pumping unit
tonnage launched
trachypus bicolor viridulus
tremella occultifuroidea
truck car
tubercula ephippii
tuberculosis of endometrium
Turbigo
unbear
valve scavenging
ventilation-circulation
vermiculous
Vākhān Corridor
wash-tubs
water sprite
Waterway Regulation
Ziguan Township
Zuluize