Lottery

(noun.) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots.

(noun.) something that is regarded as a chance event; 'the election was just a lottery to them'.

亨利录入

• So afflicted to find that his friend has drawn a prize in the lottery of Sainte Guillotine? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The lottery of the sea is not altogether so disadvantageous as that of the army. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Italy has achieved the dearest wish of her heart and become an independent State--and in so doing she has drawn an elephant in the political lottery. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He tried to be a wine-merchant, a coal-merchant, a commission lottery agent, &c. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In England, and in all Roman catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There were a hundred million tickets in HIS lottery, and there was only one prize; the chances had been too decidedly against him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• In a perfectly fair lottery, those who draw the prizes ought to gain all that is lost by those who draw the blanks. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• As the great prizes in the lottery are less, the smaller ones must be more numerous. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the business was fortunately small at the outset, until the new device, patronized chiefly by lottery-men, had proved its utility. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• That the chance of gain is naturally overvalued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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