时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2013年


英语课

 The former San Diego mayor says he who gambled away a billion dollars has acknowledged taking more than 2 million dollars from her late husband’s charity. Maureen O'Connor cut the deal that would allow her to avoid prosecution 1 while she works to repay the money. She wagered 2 the billion dollars from 2000 to 2009, mainly playing at this video poker 3. In San Diego, Vegas, and Atlantic city, O'Connor was married to the founder 4 of the Jack&box fastfood chain. She said that she was going through rough time. 


“It was of the time that in my life, while I guess the last chapter in my life, where I lost my husband, I lost three my siblings 5, I lost my two best friends, that I had a difficult time.”
O'Connor also blamed her gambling 6 addiction 7 on a brain tumor 8, suggesting it impaired 9 her reasoning.

n.起诉,告发,检举,执行,经营
  • The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
  • He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
v.在(某物)上赌钱,打赌( wager的过去式和过去分词 );保证,担保
  • She always wagered on an outsider. 她总是把赌注押在不大可能获胜的马上。
  • They wagered on the flesh, but knowing they were to lose. 他们把赌注下在肉体上,心里却明白必输无疑。 来自互联网
n.扑克;vt.烙制
  • He was cleared out in the poker game.他打扑克牌,把钱都输光了。
  • I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it.我打扑克是老手了,可以玩些花样。
n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
n.兄弟,姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )
  • A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分
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.上瘾入迷,嗜好
  • He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
  • Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
n.(肿)瘤,肿块(英)tumour
  • He was died of a malignant tumor.他死于恶性肿瘤。
  • The surgeons irradiated the tumor.外科医生用X射线照射那个肿瘤。
adj.受损的;出毛病的;有(身体或智力)缺陷的v.损害,削弱( impair的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Much reading has impaired his vision. 大量读书损害了他的视力。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • His hearing is somewhat impaired. 他的听觉已受到一定程度的损害。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
-d
address of region definition block
adhesive cell
afferent neuron
alperson
American wine
arbori-
artistic ceramics
associtation polymer
automatic switchboard
bandar murcaayo
bellow minimum
bisolven
bisymmetry
blanking machine
boon companions
bullfist
ca.circa
camponotus rothneyi tainvanae
carbinolamine
CCL-25
center line of T/G foundation
ceraceous
cloves
coagulase-positive
cockier
coinage strip
color stimulus
communications bug monitors
cracking thermal
cresorcyl
cut one loose
cutesy pie
deer-necks
direction error
Dolbeault complex
encyonema minutum
euth
fable decoration
fibroepitheliomata
fish hawks
get one's ducks in a row
gordy
hafiz
hard area
Harthacanute
haversian
hay grab with monorail troley
hernia taxis
Hyalosponigae
Ilex wattii
indian lettuces
initial terminal
intensity of irradiation
Krustpils
lay planning
levus
linear earthquake
little does someone know
maintain state
malmoret
manual backup
medium power
multiplier flock
neuromyotonic
nimbiol
oligoastrocytomas
oversight costs
para-Bromdylamine
poverty traps
predictable signal instrument
print works
procommunists
pushovers
pyrops candelaria
quenelles
reaper-chopper
Recombination-repair
renewing the oil
Salvia brachyloma
scale adjustment
scorpion bite poisoning
shoe collar
squirt cut
statement of changes in surplus
steinbruck
sylvaticums
tail assembly
tapered-tooth gear
terminal capacitive load
thenychlor
throw one's weight behind
towers over
transcendality
water absorption capacity
weebles
well-moralized
wheeled dry powder fire extinguisher
why'd
word count
X-ray technic-film
younghede