名词彩票; 碰运气的事
1. 彩票：for Little Criminals)、罗斯.特里梅因(英国)的回家的路(The Road Home)、帕特里夏.伍德(美国)的彩票(Lottery)和夏洛特.门德尔松(英国)的那时我们糟透了(When We Were Bad),其中一半是处女作.
2. 樂透：太阳队也从网队换到了Stephon Marbury和乐透(Lottery)选秀权. 太阳队用这一选秀权得到了小S(Amare Stoudemire). 2002-2003赛季小斯初露锋芒,他在很多方面和大明星卡尔马龙很相似(Karl Malone). 他的身材,运动能力,
3. 抽奖：存在如何描述(表达)后果的实际价值,以便反映决策的人偏好次序(preference order)的问题而效用(Utility)就是偏好的量化,是数(实值函数).又考虑了各种后果的概率(probability or likelihood)分布iii,抽奖(lottery)与确定当量.公理1
1. （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.
e.g. ...the national lottery.
国家博彩
2. 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.
e.g. The stockmarket is a lottery...
股市买卖全看运气。
e.g. Which judges are assigned to a case is always a bit of a lottery.
一个案子安排哪些法官来审理，往往有点看运气。
2. lottery的解释
noun
1. players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
Synonym: drawing
2. something that is regarded as a chance event
e.g. the election was just a lottery to them