常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

You’ve got to be in it to win it.

本日から年末ジャンボが売り出されましたが、こちらはもっとすごい宝クジです。卒業生でだれか今、アメリカに行ってませんか?わたしの分を買ってきて!
You’ve got to be in it to win it.「買わなきゃ当たらない」。まさにその通り。(UG)

No Powerball Winner; Jackpot Grows to Record $425 Million

The Powerball jackpot has swelled to $425 million, the largest in the lottery’s history, after no tickets matched the winning numbers in a drawing Saturday night.

The Powerball numbers for Saturday were 22-32-37-44-50, and the Powerball was 34.
Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer said the jackpot could get even bigger before Wednesday, because sales tend to increase in the run-up to a big drawing.

The previous top windfall was $365 million. The jackpot was claimed by eight co-workers in Lincoln, Neb., in 2006.

While millions of Americans can have fun dreaming about how they’d spend the jackpot, the odds of winning are 1 in 175,000,000, according to lottery officials.

To put that in perspective, a ticket holder is 25 times less likely to win the jackpot then they are to win an Academy Award.

Even still, the old saying holds true: “You’ve got to be in it to win it.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/11/no-powerball-winner-jackpot-grows-to-record-425-million/