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美语咖啡屋 Lesson 8: Powerball Lottery
Y:大家好, 我是杨晨! 欢迎您到美语咖啡屋!
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, 好象幸运女神不太喜欢你。
J: I guess not. Well, you try yours and see how you do.
Y: 好，我来试试我的运气。(scratch, scratch) 哇! 我赢了五块钱!
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: 你说的好多州一起办的那个超级乐透奖,对不对？
J: Yes. That's right! The POWERBALL!
(Enter sharp lightning crack)
Y: 这个声音好恐怖啊！
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，我现在已经感受到超级乐透的威力了。现在你这个音响效果可不可以停止了呢？
J: Okay. No more lightning bolts. For a while.
Y: 可是，我们是不是先来解释lottery这个词，然后再发挥你的音响效果。
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，对，Lottery是以买彩票或奖券的方式进行赌博。
J: The jackpot recently is really high: $210 million!
