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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a poor loser
accompaniment
accoustic inertance
acidic gases
activity restart cycle
affective insanity
albumenise
allobioergy
anaesthesiologic
antidebate
antireducer
applied load
argutious
arms half side downward
automated mutual assistance vessel rescue system
BCMO
botherder
bridge virtual interface
browche
bucks mt.
ceramium aduncum
chairships
Chen Shigong
Cocharcas
custodiets
dead ducks
dealing-only service
decide in favour of
definedness
duodene
etherosulfuric acid
exquisitus
extra hard
facing point switch
faunts
fort devens
freight tax
grumbler
gurnard
gyro erected optical navigation system
Harris yarn
heamofiltration
horizontally polarized antenna
hydro cone crusher
hydrogen-containing
hypogonadal
in ones
internal communication system
ketoxal
knowledge based programming system
leatherleaf
lifting bridge for inclined shaft
light lunch
linear pinch machine
location case
logarithmic energy change
M. & K.
matai resinol
meism
minimum output current
mobile network computing reference specification
motorola 680x0
MTTF
National Labour Relations Board
nonscientific
on one's own time
optimum pressure
Ormsjö
oval groove
Panmunjom
penoncels
polycarbonate
ponderomotive action
preaccelerator
prenups
present a bill for acceptation
Quotidiano
radiological defernse
rapid rewind
robert scotts
saartjie
security directors
selenous
shiba
shop-talks
single-axis control
sixty-fourmos
specialty
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stearmans
subsurface storm flow
supplemental directive
Surrey County
syngarny
the hulk
translimitation
upper caudal bristle
venitives
vertical compressor
wahpeton
watch-alarm
whw