lottery
lottery 英 [ˈlɒtəri] 美 [ˈlɑtəri]
n. 彩票；碰运气的事
名词复数:lotteries
- A lottery is a contest where players buy tickets and have a random (and low) chance of winning. Finding true love and getting hit by lightning are often said to be as likely as winning the lottery.
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- n. 彩票；碰运气的事
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1. the national lottery, the state lottery
全国的╱州的彩票抽奖
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2. a lottery ticket
彩票
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3. Some people think that marriage is a lottery.
有些人认为婚姻靠的是运气。
- lottery (n.) 1560s, "arrangement for an awarding of prizes by chance among those buying tickets," from Italian lotteria, from lotto "lot, portion, share," from a Germanic source. It is cognate with Old English hlot (see lot (n.)), and compare lotto. Middle French loterie is from Middle Dutch loterje, from the same Germanic source. Formerly they were typically used to raise money for some state or charitable purpose.
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