Lottery
['lɒt(ə)rɪ] or ['lɑtəri]
解释:
(noun.) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots.
(noun.) something that is regarded as a chance event; 'the election was just a lottery to them'.
亨利录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.
(n.) Allotment; thing allotted.
伊丽莎白编辑
解释:
n. a distribution of prizes by lot or chance: a game of chance.
艾娜录入
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a lottery, and that you are taking great interest in the drawing, you will engage in some worthless enterprise, which will cause you to make an unpropitious journey. If you hold the lucky number, you will gain in a speculation which will perplex and give you much anxiety. To see others winning in a lottery, denotes convivialities and amusements, bringing many friends together. If you lose in a lottery, you will be the victim of designing persons. Gloomy depressions in your affairs will result. For a young woman to dream of a lottery in any way, denotes that her careless way of doing things will bring her disappointment, and a husband who will not be altogether reliable or constant. To dream of a lottery, denotes you will have unfavorable friendships in business. Your love affairs will produce temporary pleasure.
詹尼弗编辑
例句:
- So afflicted to find that his friend has drawn a prize in the lottery of Sainte Guillotine? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The lottery of the sea is not altogether so disadvantageous as that of the army. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Italy has achieved the dearest wish of her heart and become an independent State--and in so doing she has drawn an elephant in the political lottery. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He tried to be a wine-merchant, a coal-merchant, a commission lottery agent, &c. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- In England, and in all Roman catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- There were a hundred million tickets in HIS lottery, and there was only one prize; the chances had been too decidedly against him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- In a perfectly fair lottery, those who draw the prizes ought to gain all that is lost by those who draw the blanks. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- As the great prizes in the lottery are less, the smaller ones must be more numerous. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- But the business was fortunately small at the outset, until the new device, patronized chiefly by lottery-men, had proved its utility. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- That the chance of gain is naturally overvalued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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