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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acaprine
analog(ue) signal
anesthetically
anti-obesic action
balancing capacity
bar-parlour
biradicaloid
Bloch wave function
blocking of engagement of fetal head
blue jay
bore diameter of roller and cage radial assembly
branch stub
carlquist
channel transition probability
chondrodystrophies
closed storage battery
Corybantian
crosscountry
digit analysis
earth centered ellipsoid
eat sb out of house and home
epoxy putty
exposed core
faked pattern
farrimond
file block table
freshcut
fund held in custody
Galibi
gamon
goalish
guide plane
guignardia cephalanthae
havest
horse-briers
horsiness
I-shape construction
ice cube tray
inconstant
interest rate effect
internet message access protocol 4
jauntinesses
lip-syncer
long-firms
long-term liabilities
media-buying
michelis
mill price
mimemes
MMGY
mudano
National Museum of Modern Art
Nemertina
noverre
Novi Bečej
nutritional megaloblastic anemia of infancy
oh-h-h-h
output job queue
over-simplifying
papyramine
patient ward
paunches
petrarches
picture-postcards
piston ring putting in and out tool
present serviceability rating
priming circuit
primitive cube
pseudomicrosparite
puerilisms
reach'd
resource sharing multiprocessor
risk label
rotational coaxial-cylinder viscometry
Sarnano
saturation-recovery
scotchman score
shrewards
sky-wave synchronized loran
software package of computer aided design
soil heat exchange
stabilizer force
suck sb to the very marrow
supplement traffic of goods
take time to smell the roses
tall orders
teke
temperature-height diagram
tigering
times of life
tommiest
top feed
toxicity of algae
ustults
vaginating
wankerish
wide landing
wind and weather
wipe one's eyes
Yen Mo
yorcoron
Zwevegem