That's great! That's like winning the sweepstakes.

{\an2}简直像中乐透嘛。

Good training is always desirable, whether the race be for place, cup, or sweepstakes.

良好的训练总是可取的，无论比赛是名次、杯赛还是抽奖。

A sweepstake for when you'll be fired.

就你什么时候会被炒鱿鱼打赌。

Let's back up to 2017, when Amazon first announced their HQ2 hunt. Right off the bat, the sweepstakes led to silly, folksy gimmicks by local politicians.

回到2017年，当亚马逊第一次宣布他们的第二总部竞标时。一开始，这些抽奖活动导致当地政界人士愚蠢，平易近人的花招。

This kind of movement is called a " sweepstakes dispersal" - a rare or chance event where an animal is able to cross a pretty extreme barrier.

这种运动被称为“抽奖活动”——一种动物能够跨越相当极端的障碍的罕见或偶然事件。

Every year or two, one of the local papers—the Portland Press-Herald, the Lewiston Sun, the Lisbon Weekly Enterprise—would do a piece on all the weird shit Dodie's folks had won in raffles and sweepstakes and giant prize drawings.

每隔一两年当地的报纸——《波特兰先驱报》，路易斯顿的《太阳报》，里斯本《周报》——就会做篇稿子报道嘟蒂家人参加各种抽奖、买彩票、礼品大放送赢来的那些莫名其妙的破烂。

A " sweepstake" – more often used in the plural, " sweepstakes" – is a promotion in which people fill out a form and give it to the company and then the company picks a winner.

” “抽奖活动” ——更常用于复数形式，“抽奖活动” ——是一种促销活动， 人们填写表格并将其交给公司， 然后公司选出获胜者。

Paul says, " Enter to win one of three grand prizes: a TV, a Hawaiian vacation, and a brand new car! " Paul is saying that the prizes for the sweepstake are a television, a vacation in Hawaii, and a new car.

保罗说，“参加比赛可赢取三项大奖之一：一台电视、一次夏威夷假期和一辆全新的汽车！”保罗说抽奖活动的奖品是一台电视、一次夏威夷假期和一辆新车。