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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67LR
Abast'umani
ABLC
ader wax
adjacent character
ambushable
anal spine
Anivskiy Rayon
anorectal line
aurin tricar-boxylic acid
carcinoma of flexura coli dextra
cascade particles
catatoniac
cavilla
charge exchange potential
chorda dorsalis
choriocarcinoma of cervix
contract of barter
cool her heels
counterstrikes
course made good
crumb-stracture(crumble structure)
crystalline overgrowth
decoy target
deferitrin
desines
Devonian System
distributed lag
doctrinate
donor limestone
drainvalve
dulceness
dumbification
endisked
endosmosis
epicarcinogen
extra-departmental organization
family lepidodendraceaes
Floarens' doctrine
Florânia
gentex number
graphical interpretation
graphopathology
gravity instrument
ground outlet
Hakken-zan
herd cats
high-pitch loudspeaker
idle running resistance
immunomes
impressibleness
jerkins
key chains
kidmen
launch and recovery capsule
litter-basket
macrocreep
made no odds
magnetic phase transition
mangostin
mares'-tails
martirs
microfinish
monkey Bar
much to my regret
Nasitrema
nourishing yin to calm the wind
NovaNET
oil-pressure gau ge
pass all entries through the book
patent omphalome-senteric duct
peson
point toothing
preudomethylephedrine
RILT
Santander, Prov.de
SDH
second filial generation
secondary bast
semiautomatic welding
shrillnesses
stay loose
stenocarpus sinuatuss
submarine humus
subsemantic resolution
sulfur (s) bacteria
superadiabatic gradient
tests of hypotheses
third trimesters
titanium plate heat exchanger
tmam
totally integrable
tropical loadline (t)
valve type piston
vinopyrine
vortilons
waddilove
windhold
worldliest
yoked basin
zero investment supply