| 释义 |
rouletterou‧lette /ruːˈlet/ noun [uncountable]   rouletteOrigin: 1700-1800 French, Old French roele ‘small wheel’, from Latin rota; ➔ ROTATE - Half our people starving and the other half standing around a roulette wheel.
- He also spent his evenings at the roulette wheels of Monte Carlo, squandering extravagant sums.
- I hadn't discovered roulette then.
- Last week they played a new noise that was obviously the sound of a ball dropping into a roulette wheel.
- Phone calls have become roulette or bingo games.
- The roulette wheels were sunk in circular pits.
- The effect is rather like the behavior of a roulette ball on a roulette wheel.
- Then I sit at a roulette table.
► Gamblingback, verbbank, nounbanker, nounbet, verbbet, nounbid, verbbingo, nounbookie, nounbookmaker, nouncasino, nounchip, nouncroupier, noundividend, noundraw, nouneach way, adverbfruit machine, noungamble, verbgaming, nounlottery, nounodds, nounofftrack, adjectiveone-armed bandit, nounparimutuel, nounplace, verbraffle, nounraffle, verbroulette, nounslot machine, nounstakeholder, nounsweepstake, nountombola, nountout, verbwager, nounwager, verb NOUN► table· Then I sit at a roulette table. ► wheel· The roulette wheels were sunk in circular pits.· He also spent his evenings at the roulette wheels of Monte Carlo, squandering extravagant sums.· The effect is rather like the behavior of a roulette ball on a roulette wheel.· Sports sites tend to be leaner, providing odds and information rather than virtual roulette wheels.· Last week they played a new noise that was obviously the sound of a ball dropping into a roulette wheel. VERB► play· At the track you play roulette between races.  a game in which a small ball is spun around on a moving wheel, and people try to win money by guessing which hole the ball will fall into |