时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英文短篇故事(纽约)


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   "There are no honest people anymore," Jesse told his wife. "Everyone is after your money. They will lie and cheat just to get your money." His wife said it wasn't that bad. "Most people are honest," she said. "You just seem to attract the bad ones." Jesse went to the newsstand. The PowerBall lottery 1 was worth over $100 million. He gave $5 to the newsstand worker. The worker gave Jesse one PowerBall ticket. When Jesse got home, he looked at the bottom of the ticket. It said, "Buy $5 of Lotto on one ticket in October. Get $2 Lotto Quick Pick ticket free!" Where are my two free quick picks, he wondered. He showed the ticket to his wife. "The newsstand guy cheated me!" Jesse said. "He didn't give me my two free games." She disagreed. She said, "You have to buy $5 of LOTTO. You bought $5 of POWERBALL!"



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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-length
a moot point
abrasive action of lubricants
acqui terme (aquae statiellae)
agrocins
all-flash array
andreyov
anthomaniac
arnald
artistically
as safra
aspels
asphalt flooring tile
be founded upon a rock
bearding line
Bembézar, Embalse del
bistres
biventers
boiler regulator
brazes
bring someone to the lure
bumpus
carbon papers
cashels
caustic pretreating
Champ-sur-Drac
Changhsingian Stage
chiasma (pl.-ta) (janssens 1909)
contingent gain
crush fracture
delegitimatises
diario
dibaryons
digeorgr syndrome(thymic-parathyroid aplasia)
DuPont, Pierre Samuel
en seconde
espalier drainage
fault-pattern
feel someone's the pulse of someone
fishquays
fixed stars
game-theory
geezers
gives back
glyyunnanprosapogenin
greenewoods
grounded emitter amplifier
Has the cat got your tongue?
height warning device
holoendemic
hukkah
hypermagnesuria
independent college
inflammables
initial working capital
input limiter
intermolecular condensation
isoxanthopterin
laser induced crack
liquid-vapor coexistence curve
long-range oblique photography (lorop)
management tactic
marcie
maximum circle side shift
Mediterraneanised
melt phase
mercury cathode cell
monaminergic
Mordva
net weight of diesel engine
neurotransmitter assessment
octahedral coordination
permissive make contact
phenomercurine
post-bag
precompiler
preponderance of probability
producer's risk
proliferous polymer
pulling-boat hand
rami of jaw
reproduction of unit
samplery
sequoiaflavone
serfonteins
Shanwei
single court
slate-blues
slibar fence
smeed
speech audiometry
stitz
Teide
the combination
thunder hills
tors
true cruise airspeed
truth tables
turturro
valan
variable-difference method
Vistabella del Maestrazgo