Lottery
['lɒt(ə)rɪ] or ['lɑtəri]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
亨利錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
伊丽莎白編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a distribution of prizes by lot or chance: a game of chance.
艾娜錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
詹尼弗編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- So afflicted to find that his friend has drawn a prize in the lottery of Sainte Guillotine? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The lottery of the sea is not altogether so disadvantageous as that of the army. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He tried to be a wine-merchant, a coal-merchant, a commission lottery agent, &c. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In England, and in all Roman catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- There were a hundred million tickets in HIS lottery, and there was only one prize; the chances had been too decidedly against him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- In a perfectly fair lottery, those who draw the prizes ought to gain all that is lost by those who draw the blanks. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- As the great prizes in the lottery are less, the smaller ones must be more numerous. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the business was fortunately small at the outset, until the new device, patronized chiefly by lottery-men, had proved its utility. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- That the chance of gain is naturally overvalued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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