| 英语单词 | lottery |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['lɒtəri] 美 ['lɑːtəri] |
| 中文释义 | n.彩票 |
| 英语例句 | (1) We freaked out when we won the lottery. (2) Congratulations on winning the lottery. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 中了奖券,我们兴奋极了。 (2) 恭喜你中了彩票。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A lottery is a contest where players buy tickets and have a random (and low) chance of winning. Finding true love and getting hit by lightning are often said to be as likely as winning the lottery. |
| vocabulary扩展 | A lottery can be a state-run contest promising big bucks to the lucky winners, or a lottery can also be any contest where the winners are selected at random. For example, some schools choose students by using a lottery system. Regardless of the type of lottery, a lottery works where there is great demand for something and only a limited number of winners. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（通过发行彩票方式的）抽彩给奖法，博彩 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.
2 [N-SING 单数名词]听天由命的事；全凭运气的事 If you describe something as a lottery, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance. [
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