喜樂美語

You can think of a machine standing still and dead until one thing happens: a coin drops through a narrow opening in its front. That opening is the slot, and it is the whole idea in the name. The machine does not care who you are or what you know; it wakes up because money went through the slot, and then it gives you something back. What it gives back is where the two meanings part company.

可以想成一台機器安安靜靜地站著，什麼都不做。直到一枚硬幣從正面那道細長的縫掉進去，它才醒過來。那道縫就是 slot，也是整個名字的重點。機器不在乎你是誰、會不會玩，它只認那枚投進去的錢。投了錢，它就回你一樣東西。至於回你的是一次碰運氣的機會，還是一罐你指定的飲料，就是兩個意思分岔的地方。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

複數 slot machines

意思相近

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用法接近

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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

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  • 1

    Any machine operated by placing money or a token into a slot, especially:

    • As an illustration of a general technique for calculating odds, suppose you are playing a 25-cent slot machine.
  • 2

    Any machine operated by placing money or a token into a slot, especially:

    • The paperback selling slot-machine was only one resourceful trade invention, […]
  • 3

    datedAny machine operated by placing money or a token into a slot, especially:

    • “[…]But I should be much obliged if you would see that the gas people come to-morrow and put my stove in order. It might be done while I am out. That the shilling-in-the-slot machine should go wrong is very unpleasant.[…]” […] Mr. Sleuth spoke pettishly, with far more heat than he was wont to speak, but Mrs. Bunting sympathised with him in this matter. She had always suspected that those slot machines were as dishonest as if they were human.

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