Think of numbers being drawn out of a machine while everyone watches: nobody's effort or merit decides who wins — only which number comes out. That picture spreads. When a school or an office picks names by chance instead of by rules, that is a lottery too. And when what happens to you seems to depend on luck alone, people call the whole situation a lottery.
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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lotterynoun/ˈlɒtəɹi/
- 1
A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
- Dave plays the lottery almost every week, but always picks different numbers.
- 2
Something decided by chance.
- It's a bit of a lottery whether we'll get a good table in that diner.
- 3
obsoleteAllotment; a thing allotted.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。