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。
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abnormalize
abortion-related
Abū Rukbah
academic degree system
Adah
adazzle
alnus veridiss
annuity on human life
ant colony optimization
argueth
Asenath
barge bumpar
beyond sb's tehter
bilinear form module
bitter spar
collectairs
cornball
crimnal law
culting
drop breakup
eagerest
ecdysteroid
electric inspection lamp
enthraling
equivalent network diagram
Everest, Mt.
exchange trunk carrier system
extraction regulating valve
field-induced photoemission
file address register
forward commitment
fuel metering operation
gender-biased
global distribution
glue-on
golasecca
grain seeding machine
Hawaiian punch
headdesks
heavy-current engineering
hellem
hematinics
hsiaos
inferior quality high price
infinitesimal strain
interference path difference
joint interagency planning
K-Stew
Kegalla Dist.
keto-myoinositol
kitten-tails
lamina suprachoroidea
lateral border of foot
linguistic approach
low voltage mini-relay
low-fat diet
manic-depressive psychoses
marketing research
masoness
metapolitefsi
minimusicals
miswaak
national professional qualification for headship (npqh)
nationales
non-numerical problem
nonpredictable
omni-directional propulsion unit
orthogonality of designs
osteopathia hyperostotica congenita
overcarking
photon absorption
pirola uniflora l.
powder processing
process wire
proxy records
Pyrularia bullata
Q-plasma
relay equipment
short views
single name note
sorroche
special crossing
spluttery
step faulting
storage organs
strength of pressure
substance 248
synovio-
system advisory board
thin-wall galvanized steel pipe
to arouse
to the extreme
tyrconnell
unload from
unmatched receiving reports
unstout
videogame
wigwag signal
willacoochee
word-addressable computer
yolk sac carcinoma
Zen gardens