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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.
可以想成開獎機轉動、號碼一顆一顆掉出來，大家盯著看：誰贏不是靠努力、也不是靠資格，只看跑出來的是哪個號碼。這個畫面會…更多收起
可以想成開獎機轉動、號碼一顆一顆掉出來，大家盯著看：誰贏不是靠努力、也不是靠資格，只看跑出來的是哪個號碼。這個畫面會往外擴散——學校或機關不照條件挑人、改用抽的，那也是 lottery；而當一件事的結果好像完全交給運氣決定時，人們就說整個情況是 a lottery。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。