lottery
US /ˈlɑtəri/
・UK /'lɒtərɪ/
B2 中高級英檢高級
n. (c.)可數名詞樂透；彩券；彩票
The chances of you making a fortune by buying a ticket and winning the lottery is tiny
n. (c.)可數名詞碰運氣的事
The lottery is a game of luck and chance
n. (c.)可數名詞抽獎
This school uses a lottery to select students for admission
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年薪三百萬根本不夠！為什麼「美國夢」越來越難達成了？ (Why A $100,000 Salary Can’t Buy The American Dream)
- The question is, are you able, given kind of the luck of the birth lottery, are you able to have opportunities that are the same as those of people who may have been born into families that are in better circumstances than your own?
問題是，考慮到出生時的運氣，你是否有機會獲得與那些出生在比你家庭條件更好的人相同的機會？
- The birth lottery shouldn't matter, right?
出生時的運氣不應該有影響，對吧？
提姆·費里斯談語言學習：專訪 Fluent in 3 months 的 Benny！ (Tim Ferriss on language learning: Interview with Benny of Fluent in 3 months )
- very unfairly because they are extremely self-conscious of their English because they lost the phone in lottery,
- but I think that Japanese are called xenophobic all the time, very unfairly because they're extremely self-conscious of their English because they lost the phoneme lottery.
但我認為日本人總是被人稱為仇外，這非常不公平，因為他們對自己的英語極度不自在，因為他們輸了音韻樂透。
6個讓人搞混的詞！fun vs funny、famous vs popular、surprise vs shock！ (6 Confusing Words: fun & funny, famous & popular, surprise & shock !)
- always use for a positive event. For example, if you bought a lottery
我們都是用在正面的活動。舉例來說，你買了一張樂透
- For example, if you bought a lottery ticket and you won, "Surprise!
知道他們是誰，但是他們需要有許多實際上喜歡他們的人
