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1、Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 192, “Winning the Lottery.”欢迎收听 ESL 第 192 期播客，中彩票。This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 192.这是 ESL 第 192 期播客 .Im your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, Ca
2、lifornia.我是主持人 Jeff McQuillan 博士，在美丽的洛城，加利福尼亚教育发展中心为你主持。Be sure to visit our website for more information about this podcast, and for the Learning Guide that goes with this podcast.一定要记得浏览我们的网站来获得更多关于本期播客的信息，以及跟本集节目相关的学习向导。It will give you all of the vocabulary words with definitions, additional exp
3、lanations, cultural notes, and a complete transcript of this podcast.上面有所有单词释义和额外的释义，以及文化背景解析和本期节目的完整文本。Todays podcast is about being very lucky, about “Winning the Lottery.”今天的播客跟好运有关，叫做中大奖 。Lets go.开始吧。Daniela: I got our lottery tickets during my lunch break.午休的时候我拿到我们的彩票了。The jackpot is up to $16
4、8 million dollars.一等奖是一亿六千八百万美金。Imagine if we won.试想一下要是我们中了奖。Boris: Thanks for getting mine, too.感谢你也帮我拿了。When is the drawing?什么时候抽奖呢？Daniela: Saturday at 6 PM.周六下午 6 点。Its being televised on Channel 4.第四频道在播呢。Boris: What would you do if you had $168 million dollars?如果你中了一亿六千八百万美金，你会做什么？Daniela: Th
5、e first thing I would do is quit my job!马上辞了工作。No more slaving away for me.再也不用做牛做马了。What would you do?你呢？Boris: If I were rich, I would travel around the world.如果我很有钱，我会环游世界。If I were younger, Id learn how to fly a plane.如果我还年轻，我会学开飞机。Ive always wanted to do that.我一直都想做这个。Daniela: Its never too lat
6、e.永远都不会太迟啊。You could still do that.你现在也可以做这件事啊。Boris: You cant teach an old dog new tricks.唉，人老了，学东西难呐。Id probably just retire and buy myself a nice new house.我可能会退休，然后买一栋好房子。Daniela: Yeah, that sounds nice.嗯，那听起来也不错。I suppose Id have a lot of family and friends asking for money.想想，也许会有很多家人和朋友来要钱。Bo
7、ris: I know I would.我知道我肯定也会。I can just see them coming out of the woodwork and pestering me.几乎能想到他们会突然冒出来，跟我纠缠不清。Maybe winning the lottery isnt such a good thing.也许中奖并不是什么好事。Daniela: Youre right.你是正确的。Its a curse.唉，是个祸害呢。When you win, you can give me all of the money.如果你中奖了，你可以把钱给我。Boris: Yeah, rig
8、ht.好哇，你就想吧。Dont hold your breath!不过，期望别太高。Todays podcast is about winning the lottery.今天的播客跟中奖有关。The “lottery,” sometimes called the “lotto,” is a contest, usually run by the government where you can win a lot of money by buying a ticket, and you buy a ticket that has the right numbers.抽奖“lottery,”也
9、叫做“lotto,”乐透，是一种活动，通常由政府来举办，你可以通过买一张奖票赢取很多钱，当然，买的奖票必须有正确的数字。Usually, there are five or six numbers, and if you have the same numbers as the winning number, then you win the prize.通常，奖票上有 5 到 6 个数字，如果你拿的数字跟中奖数字一样，你就中奖了。Here in the United States, there is no national lottery, but we do have state lott
10、eries.在美国，没有全国性的抽奖活动，但是一般有州奖赛。Individual states have lotteries and some groups of states have lotteries.个别的州会举行这样的活动，或者几个州一起举办这样的活动。California has a lottery and it is also part of a group of, I think, 10 or 11 states that has a bigger lottery.加州有抽奖活动，它同时也隶属于另外一个由 10 到 11 个州联合举办的抽奖活动的一部分。Well the lot
11、tery is, of course, almost impossible to win.当然，中奖并没有那么容易。Usually the chances of you winning are very low.中奖的几率非常低。That means that you will probably not win the lottery if you buy a ticket, but of course, people want to believe that they will someday win the lottery, so its still very popular.也就是说你买
12、了奖票并不一定会中奖，但是有些人相信他们迟早有天会中奖，所以这种活动仍然很受欢迎。Our dialogue begins with Daniela saying that she “got our lottery tickets during” her “lunch break.”对话由 Daniela 说她在午休时间拿到奖票开始。A “tickets” is the piece of paper that has your lottery numbers on it.“tickets”指的是带有数字的一张彩票。You can pick your lottery numbers, you ca
13、n decide which numbers you want, or you can let the computer give you some numbers.你可以自己选数字，自己决定要什么数字，也可以由电脑给你随机的数字。When you win a lottery, the money is called the “jackpot,” all one word.中大奖时所赢得的钱叫做“jackpot,”一个字。The “jackpot” is the money that you win if you win the first prize, you match all of th
14、e numbers for the lottery, and in this example, the jackpot is $169 million dollars.“jackpot,”指的是中了头奖，你彩票上的数字跟中奖数字一模一样，此处头奖的奖金是一亿六千八百万美金。That is actually possible in some lotteries.这实际上在抽奖活动中是有可能。Normally, the jackpot is at least seven or ten million dollars for a state lottery, and sometimes it can
15、 go up to two or even three hundred million dollars.通常情况下，一个州的头奖至少是 7 百万或是 1 千万，有时候，可能高达 2 到 3 亿。But mostly its between, say, 10 and 50 million dollars.但是多数情况下，是介乎于 1 千万到 5 万 千之间。Only 10 to 50 million dollars!才 1 千万到 5 千万之间You see thats why I dont normally buy a lottery ticket.你看吧，这就是我为什么一般都不买彩票。We
16、actually use the verb “to play” the lottery.我实际上用动词 Play 跟彩票 lottery 来搭配：玩彩票。Like you play sports, you can play the lottery.就像你玩儿某种体育运动一样，你玩儿彩票。I dont normally play the lottery myself unless the jackpot is more than 100 million dollars because, you know, for 50 million dollars, it doesnt seem like it is worth my trouble to go to the store!我通常情况下不玩儿彩票，除非头奖是一亿美金。理由是，如果只是 5 千万，我可不想那么麻烦跑去彩票站买票。Well, Daniela says that, “The jackpot is $168 millio
