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one-armed bandit

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one-armed bandit


= fruit machine (fruit).

one-armed bandit


.one-armed 'bandit
n[C]
a machine with a long handle, into which you put money in order to try to win more money
= slot machine
British Equivalent: fruit machine
1. Every summer about a dozen journalists gather at a former army training camp north of London to spend the day watching the training of London's special armed police unit.
    每年夏天,总有大约十几名记者聚集在伦敦北部的一个旧军训营,用一整天来观看伦敦特警部队的训练。

2. The debate over whether more police in Britain should be armed with guns has been going on for years.
    多年来,对于英国是否该给更多的警员配枪一直争论不休。

3. He wasn't stupid. I've seen enough criminal trials to know victims of armed attacks are seldom able to identify their offenders because their attention focuses on the guns, rather than on their users.
    他并不蠢。我看过许多刑事审判,因而知道在那些武装袭击的受害者中,很少有人能够辨认出袭击他们的人,因为他们的注意力全集中在枪上,而没有放在持枪人上。

4. Armed with the right tools and materials, newly-weds gaily embark on the task of decorating their own homes.
    用适当的工具和器材装备起来之后,新婚夫妇便兴致勃勃地着手承担装饰自己家庭的任务。

5. Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on.
    牧师拿着一支电筒走上钟楼想去看看究竟发生了什么事情。

6. Armed with the right tools and materials, newlyweds gaily embark on the task of decorating their own homes.
    新婚夫妇找来合适的工具和材料,喜气洋洋地开始布置新房。

7. Armed with the new machine, a search party went into the cave hoping to find buried treasure.
    一支用这种新机器装备起来的探宝队进入了这个岩洞,希望找到埋藏着的金子。

8. Actually the biggest threat to the traditional image and role of police officers does not come from guns and armed crime but the increase in the tasks we expect the police to carry out.
    实际上,对传统警察形象、职责的最大威胁并非来自枪支和武装犯罪,而是来自我们要求警察做的日益增多的工作。

9. It is usually the ordinary street officer who is on the wrong end of this, rather than the armed experts who arrive rather later.
    通常,正是在街上巡逻的普通警察因此遭殃,而不是姗姗来迟的武装特警。

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