lottery
n. 彩票; 碰運氣的事
A lottery is a type of gambling game in which people buy numbered tickets. Several numbers are then chosen, and the people who have those numbers on their tickets win a prize.
...the national lottery.
國家博彩
If you describe something as a lottery, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
The stockmarket is a lottery...
股市買賣全看運氣。
Which judges are assigned to a case is always a bit of a lottery.
一個案子安排哪些法官來審理,往往有點看運氣。
1. something that is regarded as a chance event;
2. players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots
My best friend won a motza in the China Sports Lottery.
我最好的朋友買中國運動獎卷中了很多錢.
She drew the winning ticket in the lottery.
她在彩票抽籤時中獎.
He won no less than £5000 in the lottery.
他居然中了5000英鎊的獎券.
Lottery officials say the $ 365 million jackpot was the largest ever in U.S. history.
彩票中心官員表示,此次的3.65億美金累積獎金是美國彩票史上的最高金額.
Buffett nixed the original idea that the kids win the lottery.
巴菲特否決了孩子們最初想買彩票中大獎的想法.