时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


英语课

   Lottery 1 officials doubled the price of a PowerBall ticket. It used to be $1. Now it's $2. The chance of winning the grand prize is now one in 175 million. It used to be one in 195 million. Second prize is now $1 million. It used to be $200,000. The smallest prize is now $4. It used to be $3. "The ticket increase is only a dollar," said a lottery official. "Now the payout is much better, and the chance of winning is much better. The public will love the new PowerBall." "I'm not playing PowerBall anymore!" said Bruce. "The chance of winning is still microscopic 2. They want us to pay double to win zero. How stupid do they think we are?" Six weeks later, the PowerBall grand prize was $310 million. Bruce bought a ticket. Just one ticket, for this one game, just this one time, Bruce promised himself.



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。
adj.微小的,细微的,极小的,显微的
  • It's impossible to read his microscopic handwriting.不可能看清他那极小的书写字迹。
  • A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.植物的肺就是其叶片上微细的气孔。
学英语单词
account distribution memorandum
air-spaced coil
akinyele
anchorage ground
award for invention
balancing delay
ballast(float) valve tray
belt feed lever pivot
blind-bombing device
blue moon
bone ashes
bone hard
bromvalerylurea
cable vessel
carsley
Chinese character information system
chroma inverter
comparing check
crestar
Cuxham
deflection-curve
Dickendorf
earcon
electrically eraseable programmable read only memory
everything on the earth
fast-lane
fitting of stuffing
gastral
great grosses
greenish white porcelain
he made the observation that...
heterogeneous sintering
highpriced
hilus of caudal olivary nucleus
human treatment
in a word
incisura thyroidea inferior
indicated glide path bend
interference effect
isospin triplet
Janupap
lamina chorioidea epithelialis (ventriculi lat.)
lariophagus distinguendus
leave in sb.'s care
Lev Davidovich Bronstein
lily (root)
live by one's wits
low convex
make-up cathead
massiform
metres
Mossaka
mpph
nature of the coast
needle counter
neighborhood
neurohypophyseal bud
non-metallic bearing
orthoclastic
peaking factor
permanent disabiltiy
plane survey
portionist
prominentia malleolaris
protect swite
pus bag
put to execution
Pālghāt
reproachest
revaporization
S.C.E.A.R.
sealed box type quenching furnace
sesoxane
shenan
shoot ramming
signal circuit controller
sociomedical
solifluction stripe
spinal cleft
square-wave form stimulator for inducing labor
statistical seismology
stereoelectronics
Ställdalen
subepitaxial diffusion
surface resistance
take a tough line
taper grip
task-oriented image data base
terminal input/output coordination time-sharing
test operation condition
translithospheric fracture
trimethyl methylol melamine
trisomy21
tube wrenches
ultraviolet region
unofficial economy
untaxes
vomitlike
werefoxes
wheel rolling mill
wybrow
Y-jack