时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   The Mega Millions lottery 1 was worth $190 million. The Powerball lottery was worth $550 million. Irene, 84, had never bought a lottery ticket in her life. Whenever she had a few extra dollars, she bought treats for her cat. But because both lotteries 2 were headline news, she bought one ticket for each lottery. On Sunday, she heard that there were two winning 3 tickets. They'd been sold in New York. Could one possibly be mine, she wondered. She went online. She checked her Mega ticket. She almost fainted 4. She had won the Mega! After calming down, she checked her Powerball ticket. She almost fainted again. She had won the Powerball too! Irene became headline news. People complained. They said it wasn't fair. The chances of her winning two huge lotteries were measly. A statistician said, "She had a better chance of being struck by lightning while turning cartwheels in Times Square."



n.抽彩;碰运气的事,难于算计的事
  • He won no less than £5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
  • They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。
n.抽彩给奖法( lottery的名词复数 );碰运气的事;彩票;彩券
  • Next to bullfights and soccer, lotteries are Spain's biggest sport. 除了斗牛和足球以外,彩票是西班牙最热门的玩意儿。 来自辞典例句
  • Next to bullfight and soccer, lotteries are Spain's biggest sport. 发行彩票在西班牙是仅次于斗牛和足球的最大娱乐活动。 来自辞典例句
adj.获胜的,胜利的;吸引人的,有说服力的
  • Team A has no chance of winning.A队没有获胜的可能。
  • They have great hopes of winning.他们获胜的希望极大。
v.晕倒,昏倒( faint的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Facer has fainted; this bucket of water should fetch him round. 费塞昏过去了,这桶水可以使他苏醒过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She all but fainted when she heard the news. 听到那消息,她差点晕过去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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accounting corporation
aerological ascent
alternating burst
anachorites
arteriocapillary
availability optimization
average head
baby bumps
Batidales
bore the pants off someone
bounteousnesses
cartridge pens
cervical cytology
check function
chigga
colonial-styles
computer-aided financial management
contagionists
continental-rationalism
continuous magnetization method
couchness
crinin
Demyanovich's treatment
effective buying income
emergency relief valve
Ertingen
ethanoic acid (acetic acid)
eurogames
excited band
exhaust reheat
family Hominidae
family Torpedinidae
financial laws and regulations
Freguency
Fuckgirl
full size mode
g.ho.st
hieland
horizontal precipitation
HSV-II
inquiry and communications system
insurance for war risk
jurram
lag deposit
leiocarposide
logical address offset
main base
misadvertence
movie-houses
Murray Town
mycalids
mycetology
natural-science
nfis
nonnecrotic
Opoczno
Outlook.com
pedestrian crosswalk
peggottys
PenPower
phenoxyacetamide
Port Orford
production of people
propagules
questionees
real-time application language
reconoce
refractory slab
rhabdos
rice mosaic
roll box
schmidt-nielsen
schwlis
Scott tester
search address
Segodnya
semiclassical approximation
sinnier
soda nitre
soda-alum
squalamines
stomachically
stud muffins
Sudanic
supermods
supporting block for location
tearjerkers
teleoperators
tetracosanoic
thermal check light
trans-fat
transantrum posterior tympanotomy
traumatic pneumonosis
trustee securities
tumesce
umbilical souffle
Uniloy
vctor
winch dyeing machine
Yakassé-Attobrou
Yandǒk-gun
yippee-canoe