lottery
美 [?lɑt?ri] 
英 [?l?t?ri]
- n.（用發行彩票為政府、慈善機構等集資的）抽彩給獎法；碰運氣的事
- 網絡開獎；彩民；樂透
詞形變化
復數：lotteries 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | [c] （用發行彩票為政府、慈善機構等集資的）抽彩給獎法a way of raising money for a government, charity, etc. by selling tickets that have different numbers on them that people have chosen. Numbers are then chosen by chance and the people who have those numbers on their tickets win prizes. |
| the national/state lottery 全國的╱州的彩票抽獎 |
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2. | [sing] 碰運氣的事a situation whose success or result is based on luck rather than on effort or careful organization |
| Some people think that marriage is a lottery. 有些人認為婚姻靠的是運氣。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
It seems to me that buying lottery tickets is a waste of money.
在我看來買彩票是浪費錢。
The amount of money may be unusual for that lottery draw. $18 million is an odd amount of money and may be a rare event.
獎金額對于彩票來說不太尋常。1800萬美金是一筆不尋常的獎金，可能是一件十分稀罕的事件。
You won't believe how much money I won from the lottery.
你肯定不會相信我買彩票贏了多少錢。
He excitedly told me that he had just won the lottery, but I gave him a slap in the face when I told him that his ticket was expired.
他興奮地告訴我中了六合彩，仔細看才發現原來彩票過期，我就像把一盆冷水潑向他。
But if you do not train, your victory may be like a one-time lottery win, which you cannot capitalize on over the long run.
但是如果你不訓練，你的勝利可能就像贏得了一次樂透彩，而這種運氣并不能供你長久利用。
Colin's immediate reaction, just as I'd hoped, was to look like a man who'd been told he'd won the Lottery.
科林的第一反應不出我所料，他看起來就好像是聽說自己買彩票中了似的。
Once the numbers for your chosen lottery are drawn, Ozlotteries. Com will send you an email to let you know if you have won a prize.
一旦你所選的樂透開獎，Ozlotteries.com會發給你電子郵件通知你是否中獎。
Officially the lottery games are different from gambling, but in practice there is often no obvious distinction.
按照官方的說法，彩票游戲與賭博不同，但事實上，它們之間往往沒有明顯的區別。
Then it turned into a bit of a lottery as to who hit the rain at what part of the circuit and the decisions which were made after that.
然后它變成一個有點彩票是誰擊中下雨哪一部分電路的決定后，發了言。
It was the end of a surprising, exhilarating run for the Suns, who went from lottery team to Western Conference finalist in a year.
太陽隊充滿驚喜而又令人振奮的旅程結束了，本賽季他們從一支樂透區隊伍開始直到殺入西區決賽。
My wife dosen't know how much money I spent in buying lottery. If she ever found out, I'm sure she'd never forgive me.
我太太不知道我在彩票上化了多少錢，如果她發現了，我可以確信，她講永遠不會原諒我。
Today, my friends thought it would be funny to prank me with a fake winning lottery ticket.
今天，我的狐朋狗友們認為用一張虛假的中將彩票對我惡作劇會很有趣。
There are also widespread lottery programmes, to which state treasuries have grown just as addicted as working-class punters.
還有流行甚廣的彩票項目——各州財政也慢慢變得和工人階級彩民一樣沉溺于彩票。
I've bought some lottery tickets but I've never been lucky enough to win a prize.
我買過一些彩票，但運氣不好從沒中過獎。
Rough calculation, each about the winning or losing a hundred or so, and the pressure of each injection, lottery time just a few minutes.
粗略算來，每一把輸贏大概在一百元左右，而每把的壓注、開獎時間僅僅幾分鐘而已。
Perhaps they intend to marry a movie star or to win the lottery but working their way up is not part of the plan.
也許他們想嫁個電影明星，或者中個大獎什么的，自力更生不在其計劃之列。
"I'm only going to be remembered as the lunatic who won the lottery, " he said.
我恐怕僅僅被當作一個贏了大獎的瘋子而留在人們的記憶中。
All this has transformed the lottery from a glorified tax on the poor, as it is in most countries, into part of the social fabric.
所有這些都把圣誕彩票從一個對窮人的額外稅附（大多數國家是如此）變成了社會網絡架構的一部分。
The money he got from winning the lottery allowed him to live out his dream of sailing around the world.
他中彩票獲得的錢足以讓他實現航海環游世界的夢想。
Bill didn't even bat an eye when they told him he had just won the lottery. He just shrugged and said, 'Well, I guess I can use the money.
當他們告訴Bill他中了樂透的時候他眼睛都沒有眨一下，他聳肩并說道：“哦，那我猜我可以用那錢了。”
She potted me with the tale that my husband has won a lottery of two millions.
她編造謊話說我丈夫中彩得了二百萬元，以此來愚弄我。
Do you think we should buy a terminal of the lottery with an eighty-five?
你覺得我們買一張末尾是85的彩票好嗎？
The boy daydreams about lottery wins.
這男孩幻想能中彩。
In other words, Americans think you are just as likely to get rich by winning the lottery as you are by saving.
換句話說，美國人認為你通過省錢致富的概率和中彩票發家差不多。
Yet when a close friend in Madrid managed to land a table, I felt as if I had won the lottery.
但當馬德里的一位密友想方設法搞到一張桌位時，我感覺仿佛中了彩票一般。
He won first prize in a lottery enough to keep him in beer for a year.
他彩票中頭等獎，足夠供他喝一年的啤酒了。
The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention.
彩票每星期開獎一次，獎金不少，這是無產者真正關心的一件大事。
But you don't need the money to enjoy life, so for you it's a game. But when the poor buy lottery tickets, it is often out of desperation.
但你并不是需要那筆錢來享受生活，因此對于你來說，這只是一場游戲。然而，對于窮人，彩票往往令他們絕望。
But suppose you were a greedy lottery company manager, concerned more with your own bonus than with your shareholders' interests.
但假如你是一名貪心的彩票公司經理，關心自己的獎金甚過股東的利益。
He was trying to be very quiet about it but the news that he had won the lottery spread rapidly by word of mouth.
他本來不想別人知道，但是他中了彩票頭獎的消息還是很快口頭傳開了。
Why we're inclined to treat stocks as if they were lottery tickets instead of ownership in an actual company?
為什么我們寧肯把股票當彩票，而不是當它是對某公司的擁有權？
As people's concept of consumption become mature, the lottery market is entering into a stage of stable development.
消費者的消費觀念日趨成熟后，彩票市場逐步進入穩定發展的階段；
Even so, surviving an accident is something of a lottery.
即使是這樣，在事故中逃生也猶如中了彩票一般。
A sports extremely popular glossary , the soccer lottery ticket is nobody did not know.
體育界一個非常熱門的詞匯，足球博彩界更是無人不知。
Naturally, it would help if the Olympics did not cannibalise too much of the lottery funding for grass-roots sport.
自然，如果奧運會沒有占用太多原本用于全民體育健身的彩票基金的話，應該會有所幫助。
The lottery winners were also asked how much they enjoyed buying clothes, a question that was omitted in the case of the quadriplegics.
（那些中彩者還被問及他們從購物中獲得多少享受，這個問題同樣也用到了四肢癱瘓的受訪者當中）。
The most able find it too easy to get A-grades at A-level, meaning that admission to sought-after university courses becomes a lottery.
而能力最強的學生則認為在中學高級水平考試（A-level）中取得全A分數輕而易舉，這意味著取得受歡迎的大學課程入學通知成了彩票中獎似的。
He was as sick as a parrot when he realized he had thrown away his lottery ticket.
當他發覺自己已經把彩票券扔掉了，他就像病懨懨的鸚鵡一般泄氣。
A year after losing their legs, and a year after winning the lotto, lottery winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives.
失去雙腿后的一年，以及中大獎之后的一年，中大獎的人和截癱的人對自己生活的幸福感是相同的。
Lottery winners are the perfect example: within a year, they usually return to their former happiness level.
中彩票的人就是個很好的例子，在一年內，他們通常會回到他們最初的幸福水平。
But to be honest, I make more as a consultant, and I find consulting to be a lot more interesting than scratch lottery tickets.
但誠實地講，這還不如我做顧問的收入，而且顧問比刮彩的活有趣多了。
Some local police believe that there was a link between the increase of street robberies and the rampant sale of lottery tickets.
一些當地的警察認為，街頭搶劫犯罪數量的增加和彩票發售無序有聯系。
Even the Spanish Civil War did not succeed in shaking the lottery's grip: each side held its own Christmas draw.
連曾經的西班牙內戰都沒能動搖彩票的吸引力：內戰雙方都舉辦了圣誕抽獎。
