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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adrencorticotropin
afforestation area
airmail letters
Alex from Target
alisma plantagoaquatica l.var.orientale samuel
antigraft reaction
arcwise connected topological space
aslept
average earnings index
Axline tester
backhoe excavator
bikeskill
birotary burbine
biuret crosslink
Blyth Valley
bottom culture
box-type gate
Buarcos
calory
chocolate pansy
compensation ocular
construction operation
dacian cloth
Delcassé, Mts.
Dempo, Selat
disk storage system
Dogdyke
Dzierzaznia
electronic article numbering
exchange risk
external honing
flash-freeze
freshment
fruit sizer
Gaucher's cells
ginger pops
gliobastona
harborage area
headboards
hippogriff
HREELS
humic allophane soil
incautiously
interfractional
International Diplomatic Academy
john bach mcmasters
jumps up
jurassic park
kalsilites
keelage
Lines of communication
magnetoasymmetry
maintenance chemotherapy
manufacturing plan sheet
marchalsey
market gain on securities
mboi
mequiverine
microassembly techniques
mini-blind
moharrir
mythicizer
nonpeers
Oekolp
operationalisable
optical slope corrector
ornata
Pagenstecher's circle
palptibia
Parthenopaeus
phacometer
pig's trotter
podshivalov
politically-active
polyoxometallate
poststudio
prejudiceth
pressure compensated valve
Pyay
quadrantal triangle
relationshipless
relisten
respond with
reversing carburetor
Sabbathaism
Scripps, Edward Wyllis
seal by flat gasket
single-phase AC traction motor
skirls
south sides
telegraphic transfer buying rate
the balance of power
thumb edge
total internal reflection light pipe
treasury accounting
twin-cylinder
unipotent component
unprofit
upper water level for flood control
variable expressivity
verrucous hygroma
Warbex