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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absolute ethyl alcohol
Al Qā'īyah
antecedence, antecedency
atmospheric distillate
auxiliary stop valve
azimuth atabilzation
Bagac B.
bilge processing equipment
boiler steel structure
Bondarzewiaceae
boreal owl
bucket-wheel suction dredger
chain pulley
chartula amylacea
chionite
chloretone
cleavablest
coil of rope
compound film capacitor
conglutine
control of well kick and blowout
cromolyn sodium
dark comedies
Devil finds work for idle hands
devoting to
diagrammatic presentation
discursive psychology
doanes
Dunecht
endotoxemic
enzymic transformation
fan-shaped training
FEV2
first-in last-out stack
fixed length module
fluid sonolucent area
focus-out
foot - in - mouth disease
Geissler discharge tube
glass machining technique
glenodine
Good Horse
hard wallboard
hydroginkgoic acid
impermissiveness
index of geographical concentration
infra-orbital canal
jihadizing
Kitayama-gawa
Klintsovskiy Rayon
light induced bleaching
locational clearance fit
mansengs
measuring precision of angle
menton-supramentale
mindbender
moderator
momentum integral method
monobasic dihydroxy-acid
natural language information system
Oimbra
On your marks!
onny
pentoxifyllines
preeminents
pressure tube reactor
Procynocephalus
proteinoid microsphere
providentialism
prudeness
Prudhoe Bay
public system
publius terentius afers
Put Ratio Backspread
queerization
Rastas
Rhodosporidium
robusta
serration hob
Sindorf
single large or several small principle
slamets
Sleeping Bear Point
sling dog
smell to high heaven
static ringer
swordplants
symasul
tapped actuator
target reconnaissance
thomas-brown
toothleted
transformism
tropical free board
unaids
untracable
vagring
variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease
venustulus
Vincocilina
water-purifyings
zeroable