时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

It's a lottery 1 story unlike so many others, where chance was followed quickly by fate and grief gave way to an amazing discovery. That's Charlotte Peters, and that's a golden lottery ticket she almost threw away. Her husband had bought it a couple of months ago, but died of a heart attack that same day, never knowing the ticket was a big winner.




My husband had purchased it on November 1st and he had a heart attack on November 1st, and this was drawn 2 on December 2nd.




His wife didn't know it was a winner either and put the ticket aside during weeks of mourning until just recently.


 


I was on the verge 3 of throwing it out, and I was in the grocery store, and I asked to have it checked, and they told me I was a winner. I had no idea how much it was.




She now knows that ticket is worth $10 million. Donald Peters was a retired 4 factory worker and had been playing the lottery regularly for 20 years.


 


Sandy Cousell, the Associated Press.


 



1 lottery
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。
2 drawn
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
3 verge
n.边,边缘;v.接近,濒临
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
4 retired
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
学英语单词
abortive rise
after acquired property clause
aggregation velocity
airgraph
Amomum muricarpum
amorettos
antisupermarket
arborviruss
Arneth's classification
aseptic sursery
bent tail lathe dog
bicucine
Blot's perforator
bridge cap
broad band ultrasonic pulse
car-tax
CCIM
cebiches
Cholpon-Ata
clysma
coefficient of runoff regulation
cubiculary
dead latch
default of defence
drive impulse
duncely
earth pressure gauge
Egyptian wind
electronic tube
embusy
extrusion spinning
f-series
flightdeliver
FPDS (fire protection data system)
Fractal Image Format
fragor
fruit compote
governor cabinet
ground investigation
headstead
horseshoe lake
hydro-mechanical tipper
impenetrablenesses
incommensurables
intercool
International Association for Water Law
Kourouba
laminar film
Languineo
latitude levelling dial
leaky grid detector
Luhansk People's Republic
membranous pregnancy
movable rubber belt conveyor
naked light
Noah's Ark
non absorbing coating
nonsubscripted integer variable
observational-theoretical distinction
olive tree
overstocking
Pabamin
para-time-rock unit
parabolic delay distortion
peace offerings
phialosporae
philometrosis
pitchfork bifurcation
pneumocystis
poikilothermics
post-vaccinal encephalomyelitis
precoid
preproduction engine
proto-sun
pythium dissotocum
R. I. A. A.
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
respect to
roughing stone
sales tactics
schoette
Seki-shi
shape effect
simple lateral eyes
Spartiate
spatial registration
strigil
subsequent river
Sukumo-wan
sweerness
synthesizing tower
the hell with
Thomas Love Peacock
thyrosis
Tohāna
tuppeny
Umbriel
vasko
venae maxillares
wecker
Yurok
zone of ambiguity