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。
学英语单词
acid neutralizing unit
actors studio
actual cost
acute gastroenteritis
adiabatic chemical reaction
aleutian islandss
American Currency Quotation
attribute of identifier
autogynephilia
back asswards
Banfora, Falaise de
benzene methane sulfonic acid
biarison
blennuria
casing nails
closed-loop control circuit
concentrated phase
constant energy synchronous fluorimetry
cuntfaced
Daejeong
deassing
decklist
defense-suppression missile
desse
dynamic people
earth station in the fixedsatellite service
easternise
ecological displacement
escape cone
family Psocidae
floating-point accumulator
gastric mycosis
hard sector format
high megohm resistance comparator
indoor game
inertial reference frames
instalment credit selling
istm(international society for testing and material)
lacquer tray
lecithin acyltransferase
loafting
Lonicera ferdinandi
man-madest
manual manipulation
master characteristics
microwave plasma accelerator
moderate earthquake
modulus selection
molecular configuration of pheromone
mountebanks
Mulayjah
NetApp
next record pointer
non equivalence gate
only me
open check
parabolic law
particular purpose
percussion hammer
Phormidium retzii
pinocytosis vacuole
piston rod pin
preliminary drawings
pulsed sieve-plate column
quartziferous rocks
quiet lines
radioactive vitamine B12
recommended oatvarieties
reorderable
reseminate
retention distance
rotating sleeve type magneto
rotor housing
rutheniate
sanitation engineer
scaffle
SCBC
secondary infertility
single star navigation
smsests-s
soil-types
soldering fluxes
Spinacia L.
substantive clause
Swietinia macrophylla
sympathatic detonation
taiko
tar archive
technical parameter
the deep
tornate
trouble oscilloscope
USDL
Utkal Plains
violenter
wagonmaking
waveguide corner
ways of life
well gate
wild brake
yeast-like organism
zeved habat