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
aerodynamic isotope separation
alobar
Alopecurus pratensis
alpha hydrogen
Ananas comosus
anequaled
application explorer mission
ariosoma major
asobara aurea
Auriac
binker
bird's-eye pique
breeder reactor department
carry a load
Ceret
Chargey
control rod location
conversancy
corruption of offence
cost accountant
crocodile
Cromer, lst Earl of
Dalyell
decrystallized cotton
discharge tongs
double criminality
energyintensive
engouement
epiphonema
esparto pulp
f-m radar
fastuously
fixed catalyst bed
flavivirus hepacivirus
functional fixedness
gas treatment
global navigation satellite system (glonass)
gone five-hole
gravitater
HFM (homogeneous equilibrium critical flow model)
horizontal tabulate
humus ortstien
in the egg
internal void
justified copy
light aircraft carrier
line sensing amplifier
liquid phase epitaxy dopants
long peppers
lymphoid leukocyte
Mailbot
matriculation examination
metal carbonyl catalyst
metrological provision
milam
milkcrates
mitro-aortic ring
Monterrico, Vol.
Nepenthes phyllamphora
Nojon-bong
over-kill
overplumped
Pelton waterwheel
PhoneGap Build
pine board
pleurosphenoids (or spheno-laterals)
primitive acrania
public-domain
push type clasp,Roach clasp
pushing-off the wagons
refinancings
renewaldate
resistance to breakdown by discharge
sapphire spinel
schwahn
scraper hauler
semi-public
sfpuc
shotgun wedding
signal-noise discrimination
single-schedule tariff
sore thumb
speed telerecorder
starch-reduced
store-ship
subtilises
sync check
synchronizing bus-bar
tab ball grid array
tall field buttercup
tartufo
testifieth
testing size
thermal cycling stresses
thick-and-thin block
three-phase shunt motor
to bear the course
tratar
truker
two-panel
umbrella patent
unconcerted