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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acadimician
activation-energies
adolescent stage
aerial bomb
agri-food
airport noise
akanthus
allophycocyanin(APC)
ampholyteric
angle-joint
anti-growth
artificial antigen
aryballo
asynchronous structure
biochips
boat sailing equipment
book crowd
brachidial support
bradosept
breviculala hemileoides
calculation of correlation
camellia uraku kitam.
checa
colonizing language
cosag
count one's blessings
DC telegraphy
dentin hypersensitiveness
departmentalized study
departs
doless
dynamic torque
eleven-day
emongest
family Cyprinidae
field guides
Food Indigo
Giebelstadt
hardly necessary
hic et nunc
hitchlessly
hotch-pot
HPE
hydroxy-cycloheximide
inhalators
ironmongeress
jambeaux
kavungo (nana candundo )
ke-yi
kehinde
kunstlers
large platform arrangement
lend-leased
locks into
luteoids
manual winch
metal glaze component
metallic-gray
metaloparite
Mikael
mingle-mangled
minidisk
mixing index
modus habilis
nonintegrable quantity
nonpyritiferous
o-acetylbenzoic acid
O. L. A.
one-level formular
organicism
outplacer
p-tert-amyl aniline
panfishes
Paul Roux
paving brick clay
paying in slip
pearlnecklace
PFIB
pitted tracheae pitted vessel
precision-guided weapon
prospective reserves
pulse current electrolytic coloring
relievable
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round shovel
sangliers
soil buffering ability
somnolescent
Song Ti
special unit of account
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stereoscopic map
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truth of the matter
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were good at
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