时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:简单慢速英语阅读


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
appear on the scene
automatic cylinder drain cock
Bamako, Rég.de
banking mechanism
biological agriculture
body condition
brake operating spindle
Bulqize
buoy appendages
calcium hydrophosphate
California bay
carbamino hemoglobin
carbon fin
care naught/nothing for
cerebral nerves (or cranial nerves)
chicken farmer
Chlorimet
circulatory effect
coarse-ground
common law court
confiscation voucher
customer request test
cutleaved coneflower
didicoi, didicoy
differential Omega
disparagest
Djaafar, Hassi
doctor-blade process
DPNPase
East Dereham
Ebner's liquid
electoral college
electron mechanics
equatability
estimation of probability density
feeding panel
free pulley
freedom
frequency of bucket emptying
full-plate
gas project
glorification
Haselbach
hoola
hygrometric continentality
i-porchaced
identification of variety
indebted
ionic acidity
John Dorees
jurish
kargel
list boxes
Lord Wavell
Malesherbia
merphenyl
microchunked
Moncef
multiple-user connection(s)
Nerium indicum Mill.
ochery hematite
official business
operational delay time
order tank
organosilicon epoxy resin
orobanchaceaes
packet voice communication
parallax-free display
peach bark beetle
Pentanema
Pikounda
poikilopicria
polapans
potato omelet
preacrostichals
propined
push-pull modulation
radiation induced activation
raked over the coals
retromammary abscess
rosengarten
saint bedas
sheet clothing
shitlessly
sidemirror
Sinopel
speculative demand
spiral fluted reamer
spitted
step-by-step method
superstandard risk
tajikite (tadzhikite)
tetra-atomic acid
tetrachloro aniline
thrift-shop
twentieth-centuries
unattendance
unloosened
urobilinaemia
volume integral
walk type mower
well-braced