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
a drug on the market
a mere fable
add-subtract counter
alarum
appearant volume
ascent propulsion system
bowman
buffing oil
CARIS
chain'
Chërnyye Zemli
cinch mark
Con Co, Dao
concessionary and contracting companies
consecratee
crucible of hafnium sponge
crystal birefringence
cutting
cylinder-heads
DCE not ready
diapason normal pitch
ditsy bimbo
dogleg maneuver
doze over sth
ductiler
echinoides
effectiveness formula
eight-year-olds
embossed seal
endostea
enkerchief
eucken equation
excess-of-loss ratio treaty reinsurance
explicit statement
famisht
fir seed oil
fiveth
freewares
grain standardization
grows out
halteth
hampdens
hargis
have a call upon
height control valve
hemadsorption inhibition test
herb-wife
heredopredisposition
impel
inflammatory proliferation
interpeduncular space
interreflection
kicked someone's ass
Kimitsu
lactarius scrobiculatus
leischman-donovan body
linguae
mazarr
mean square regression plane
metal-tank mercury-arc rectifier
multilingual processor
NBQB
new forests
niviventer coxingi
non-protected machine
odontiasis
one-sided form
pay over
plantersville
Praslin I.
pseudochiasma
punch card interpreter
radial wall thickness
re-occludes
recessus isthmicus
redemption in gold
scribed circle method
security force
Serdobsk
sex-equality
slog-sweep
snow knife
socioeconomist
spoon-net
spur-like
Stathion
static fluid loss test
suction curette
sulfonium compound
t'aint
take care of somebody
tangential features
teilchron
the star of bethlehem
typical section
unusual return
variable-speeds
welding frame
with light
Withania kansuensis
zidapaimide