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
affinity ultrafiltration
affluent stream
aggressive atmosphere
annular element
ashbridge
audit report on financial statements
big-mouthed
boom mic
boost cluster
Braunwald
call letters
capitalization of land rents
Ciano, Count Galeazzo
combustible content
consociations
constructing plan of power source
continuous motion projector
corroded condition
costume party
crosspost
cryptophytes
dam for driving timbers
death-cliff
deficit-covering loan
excitatory autacoid
external-combustion turbine
fibre agglomerates
first stage annealing
flow demand
fore aft
frequency detection
FUC-1-P
Fuente de Piedra
furance installation
future perfect continuous
Galten
gasoline supply pump
gladstone bag
graph of an equation
GTDing
gyroscopic mass flowmeter
heartly
Hiatus esophageus
hill-billy
hippomobile
hygienic measure
hyperpolarizes
inarticulacies
intervening word
intradistrict
iridised
ketotic hypoglycemia
least-square solution
lirequinil
lirokomalacht (liroconite)
lochia rubra
logic trigger generator
looking good
mastura
Matala Dam
meet someone's half way
metropolitan center
monoplastic
Mstera
multimedia system
Natchez Trace Parkway
nitrolamine tosylate
nodocoquimba lupai
nuclear zone
off of
one-off subsidy
palynologies
parabola mass-spectrograph
parallel traveling drill boom
paxital
phosphorescent wheel
piddlers
pin register system
plowing method
point of operation
proportional hazards regression model
R.&C.C.
raphe pontis
reference quantity
resistivity measurement
runner wheel
see sth. in its true colors
send round
shacked up
sociological
sowo
squeeze lifter
structured walk-through
sublineages
system development journal
transiet field method
trash guard
umbrella-shaped roof
unemployment statistics
utterers
w.a.f.
woolfolk