美語咖啡屋 Lesson 8: Powerball Lottery

Y:大家好, 我是楊晨! 歡迎您到美語咖啡屋!

J: Hello and welcome to American Cafe! I'm Jody. Here, Yang Chen. I bought you something. An instant Lottery Ticket. See, you scratch off the surface to see if you have won. Let me do mine first. (scratch, scratch) Come on Lady Luck! Make me a winner! (scratch, scratch) Damn! Nothing.

Y: Hmm, 好象幸運女神不太喜歡你。

J: I guess not. Well, you try yours and see how you do.

Y: 好，我來試試我的運氣。(scratch, scratch) 哇! 我贏了五塊錢!

J: What! Let me see that. You won five bucks! I think I gave you the wrong ticket. I think I gave you mine. Can I have it back?

Y: No way!

J: Now, what would really be exciting is if you won the BIG Lottery.

Y: 你說的好多州一起辦的那個超級樂透獎,對不對？

J: Yes. That's right! The POWERBALL!

(Enter sharp lightning crack)

Y: 這個聲音好恐怖啊！

J: What our listeners may not know but a well-timed lightning bolt sound is meant to signify the mysterious, the awesome, like the POWERBALL!!!

(Enter sharp lightning crack)

Y:好了，好了，我現在已經感受到超級樂透的威力了。現在你這個音響效果可不可以停止了呢？

J: Okay. No more lightning bolts. For a while.

Y: 可是，我們是不是先來解釋lottery這個詞，然后再發(fā)揮你的音響效果。

J: Let's do. The Lottery is gambling. It's a drawing of numbers. And you have to get all six numbers right AND pick the right number as the Powerball to win.

Y: 噢，對，Lottery是以買彩票或獎券的方式進行賭博。

J: The jackpot recently is really high: $210 million!

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