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。
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accounting field
al jarawi
alopias
angle toe
anhelose
Animation software
arroyo willows
be in a great taking
bichotomously
bird brain
block serial number error
blue-form return
boles
Britcoms
camera copyboard
characteristic energy
Chebsara
chromatoscanner
co-pilot
coherent phase-shift keying
Coliopan
CRAO
dicranum fragilifolium
dimastigate
dry pile
elastic wedge joint
emergency message
endways, endwise
epicardial mapping
european integration
extra long range (elr)
falecida
form relieved tooth
founder cell
French inhaling
give her the gun
hair root
helicine artery
hemotympanum
high-index material
ideal image
incomplete program
instrument multiplier
Intelpost
Java Connector
jealousest
judderings
klausen
law of geometric proportion
maximum displacement
mean logarithmic temperature difference
measuring bellow
morality and practices
nimbinic acid
open school night
pararectal pouch
parent city
PCDUS
phosphorosslerite (phosphorr?sslerite)
porras
pot head tail
power line carrier communication system
pre-toping
prime navaids facilities
proute
prs (process radiation sampler)
Qiana
red elm
reproductive effort
ride one's luck
rukam
sanzi yangqin decoction
SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition)
sealing lead
secondary sequestrum
seedholder
semirealistic
signal beacon
silver liquid
sliding parameter start-up and shutdown of steam turbine
socketless
spiritual rebirths
tax sale
temperature steel
Thebesian foramina
thermopolymer
three time estimates
three-dimensional disturbulence
tinctorial property
toxoalexin
tricoteuse
Uaruma
Unita
unshout
vampireless
very-high-speed
Vincent I.
water hen
Weil-Davenport method staining
yolk-sac placenta
yottampere
yuletides