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If you’re going to win the lottery, you’ve got to first remember that you’ve played the lottery. Karen Gentry remembered with only hours to spare, and she’s a fair bit wealthier for it.
你若想要中樂透，首先得記得你有玩樂透。凱琳．堅崔在只剩幾小時（就無法領獎）之際才想起來，因此變得很有錢。
On Tuesday, Karen Gentry of Alexandria, Va., just happened to see a news report that a Virginia Cash 5 winning ticket worth $100,000 was only hours from expiring.
住在維吉尼亞州亞力山卓的凱琳．堅崔，週二無意間看到一則新聞報導，說是獎金10萬美元的Virginia Cash 5中獎彩券，只剩幾小時就過期無法兌獎了。
"Would you leave a $100,000 lying around on your coffee table for anyone to grab?" ran the Virginia Lottery’s plea to players. "Probably not. But one Virginia Lottery player may be unknowingly doing just that."
「你會把10萬元忘在咖啡桌上任人拿取嗎？」維吉尼亞州樂透當局呼籲得主出面的廣告，如此殷切提醒。「恐怕不會。但某一位維吉尼亞州樂透玩家可能在無意間這麼做了。」
Then Gentry remembered that she’d bought a ticket a few months back and had tucked it away in her kitchen.
然後堅崔想起來她好幾個月前買過一張彩券，後來塞在廚房。
"So I looked, and there it was!" she told the Virginia Lottery. "I called my husband and he said, ’Yeah, right.’"
「所以我找了找，就找到（彩券）了！」她如此告訴維州樂透當局。「我打電話給我老公，他說『唉呦，是噢。』」
新聞辭典
to spare：慣用語，還剩…。例句：We paid our bills and still had money to spare.（我們付了帳單後還剩下一些錢。）
tuck away：片語動詞，非正式用法，存放，特別是指把東西放到難找的地方。
yeah, right：俚語，帶有諷刺意味的同意。例句："My sister is a beauty queen." "Yeah, right!"（「我妹是選美皇后。」「唉呦，是噢。」）
本文引用至 自由時報電子報 http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/
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