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Bob always played with cold, hard cash -- onlycoins and dollar bills.
鲍勃通常使用现金(cold, hard cash)赌博。
Sometimes my friend would clean up. He would win a lot of money on one card game.
有时他会赢钱(clean up)。一场牌戏下来,他可以赢很多钱。
He liked to tell me that one day he would break the bank. What a feeling it must be to win all of the money at a gambling table!
他喜欢告诉我,有一天他会赢得比庄家还要多的钱(break the bank),也就是说,他会赢得赌桌上所有钱。
Other times my friend would simply break even. He neither won nor lost money.
有时候,鲍勃不赢不输(break even)。
Bob always played with cold,hard cash(硬币) only coins and dollar bills. Sometimes my friends would clean up (赚钱获利打扫干净整理). He would win a lot of money on one card game. He liked to tell me that one day he would break the bank. What a feeling it must be to win all the money at a gambling table? Other times my friend would simply break even. He either won or lost money. But sometimes Bob would lose his shirt. He would lose all the money he had. He took a beating at the gambling table. When this happened, my friend would have to go in the hole (陷入财政困难). He would go into debt and owe people money.