时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   The Powerball lottery 1 is worth $550 million. Everyone is talking about it. A newspaper reporter asked an old lady what she'd do with $550 million. She said, "First of all, you news people should know better. Nobody's going to get $550 million. The winner will probably take the lump sum payment. That's only $360 million. Then, the federal government and the state will take their share. The winner will take home only about $210 million. That's better than a sharp stick in the eye, but it sure isn't $550 million." The reporter said, "You're right. Let me try again. What would you do with $210 million?" She said, "I know exactly what I'd do. I've been wanting to do this for years, but my husband keeps saying we can't afford it. Well, he can't say that if we're millionaires. I'd buy him some new underwear—and make him wear it!"



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。
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abbazzo
accosted
acevaltralte
Acridermine
admissible symbol
air-to-air guided missile
alternate-bay construction
amino-aciduria
andree
angle of attack at stall
anticytotoxin
arthritide
ascoconidium
baby bloomer
barbaralalia
basda
beat us
beg, borrow
Bexhill-on-Sea
bite at
Blueberry Hill
bronchiectatic
building society
carrier-pilot relaying
civilization-state
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current increment
directional instability
Doyne's familial honeycombed choroiditis
eat for the bar
electrical dehydrator
exasperate against
extra budgetary source
fault tolerant multicomputer system
filling status
fittle
fragment shaders
glandular hairs
golfe
gray-scale transformation
group delay equalization
Harima
heater drain system
histaminergic nerve
incremention parameter
keratoangioma
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loss of consortium
magnetic path
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MCS-10
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missy wear
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nanosuspensions
nicola
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physical strain
platelet-poor plasma
postperovskite
potential future
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properation
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W-RESPONSE
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