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Track 9一沁供稿

翻译：Crazier

你的运气如何？有没有遇到过天上掉馅饼的事情？山姆就捡到了个“大馅饼”，可是他却高兴不起来……

Sam, an1)unemployedpiano2)tuner, said it was only the second thing he had everwonin his life. The first thing was a blanket at a church3)raffle. But this was much bigger: it was $120,000!

He had won the Big4)Cube, a state5)lotterygame. To win, one must first guess which number a6)spinningcube will stop on. The cube has six numbers on it: 1, 10,50, 100, 500, and 1000. If that person is correct, he or she must then guess which of two7)selected8)variablesis going to be greater.

Sam correctly guessed 1000, but he still had to choose between two variables.One variable was the number of cars that would run the stop sign at Hill Street and Lake Avenue in six hours. The other variable was the number of times that a teenage boy would change TV9)channelsin three hours. This was a hard decision.

Sam picked the teenager and he picked right. The stop sign was run only 76 times, but the teen clicked 120 times. Sixty-year-old Sam jumped for joy. He dreamily left the lottery center. Talking excitedly on his cell phone while crossing the street, he got hit by a little sports car.

Sam is slowly getting better. He was in the hospital for a month. His hospital10)billwas $110,000. And the11)insurancecompany for the little sports car’s owner12)suedSam for $9,000. Also, Sam still has to pay13)taxeson his winnings. Samdoesn’tplay the lotteryany more. He says it’s better to be unlucky.

参考译文

山姆是一名失业的钢琴调音师。他说这是他生平第二次中奖。第一次中的奖品是在教堂抽奖得到的一条毛毯。不过这次的奖大多了：有12万美金！

他中了“大魔方”全国乐透彩。如果想要中奖，参赛者必须首先猜中转动的魔方会停在哪个数字上。魔方上有6个数字，分别为1、10、50、100、500和1000。如果猜中了，参赛者接下来还要选中给出的两个变量中数字更大的那个。

山姆猜中了1000，但他还需从两个变量中选择一个。一个变量是六小时内，希尔街和滨湖大道交叉口的停车标志会被闯多少次。另一个变量是一个男孩在三个小时内会换多少次频道。这是一个艰难的决定。

山姆选择了男孩这个变量。他猜对了。六小时内停车标志只被闯了76次，而男孩在三小时内换了120次频道。六十岁的山姆开心地跳了起来，飘飘忽忽地离开了彩票中心。山姆一边兴奋地打着电话，一边过街，这时，一辆小跑车冲过来把他撞倒了。

目前，山姆正在慢慢恢复。他在医院躺了一个月，花了整整11万美金。小跑车车主的保险公司起诉了山姆，让他赔偿9000美金。同时，山姆还得缴纳奖金税。山姆再也不玩彩票了。他说宁愿自己没那么走运。

1) unemployed [,ʌnIm'plɔId] adj. 失业的

2) tuner ['tjuːnə] n. 调音师

3) raffle ['ræfl] n. 抽彩

4) cube [kjuːb] n. 立方体

5) lottery ['lɒtərI] n. 彩票

6) spin [spIn] v. 快速旋转

7) selected [sI'lektId]adj. 经由选择的，挑选的

8) variable ['veərIəbl] n. 可变因素，变量

9) channel ['tʃænl] n. 频道

10) bill [bIl] n. 账单

11) insurance [In'ʃʊərəns] n. 保险，保险费

12) sue [suː] v. 控告，起诉

13) tax [tæks] n. 税，税额

名师考点小结

1.win意为“赢，获胜”，多指赢得某个比赛、项目或战争，后面接比赛或战争的名字，而不能接比赛对手。例如：

Wang Mei won the race. 王梅赛跑赢了。

It’s very hard for us to win the basketball match. 对我们而言赢得这场篮球比赛很困难。

拓展：beat后面须接比赛的对象，意为“打败”。例如：

I think you can beat the team from No.1 Middle School. 我认为你们可以击败第一中学队。

2.not...any more意为“不再，再也不”。和它同义的短语有no more, not...any longer, no longer等。

(1) not…any more=no more作状语时修饰非延续性动词，用来说明在程度和数量上的“不再”，多用于将来时态。(2) not...any longer=no longer，修饰延续性的动词，表示时间、状态、距离等的不再

延续，着重于对现在和过去情况的对比。

(3) no longer位于句中，no more常出现在句末，not...any longer与not...any more

的位置是not位于句中，any longer, any more通常在句尾。

(4) no more除作状语外，还可以作定语或宾语，而no longer只能作状语。

例如：

Don’t eat any more.=Eat no more. 别吃了。

John is no longer late for school.=John isn’t late for school any longer. 约翰上学不再迟到了。

I have no more to say. 我没有什么要说的了。（作宾语）

I have no more money with me. 我身上再也没钱了。（作定语）