万花筒 2008ks1026&27 彩票印错，大奖飞了

These are the lottery¹ tickets a Chesterfield man bought Sunday morning, 120 in all, almost 30 of them were winners.

 

I thought maybe they were trying to push the new game, but I did think it was a bit odd.

 

The man who asked to remain anonymous² thought he'd finally be able to pay off much of his debt.

 

I felt a whole lot of burden lifted off my shoulders. Actually, I thought, this is gonna be some, this is gonna be put to use and pay some bills and times are tight, I thought it was gonna be something incredible.

 

But when he scanned a ticket that should have been a big winner, the machine told him he could only collect two or three dollars.

 

How were you feeling?

 

A whole lot of loss actually, you know, as like, a lot of money just, you know which I should have had in my hand had been taken away from me.

 

Just to see what would happen, the man brought what he thought was a winning ticket to the lottery office in downtown Richmond. With six sevens, he should have won 277 dollars. They only offered him seven.

 

We are looking at the situation. We are figuring out what happened. We are talking with the vendor³ who runs the game. We are talking to the Attorney General's Office to see what we can legally do.

 

Right now, though, lottery officials are asking winners to hang on to their tickets and to be patient.

 

1 lottery   

n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事

参考例句：

• He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
• They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。

2 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

3 vendor   

n.卖主；小贩

参考例句：

• She looked at the vendor who cheated her the other day with distaste.她厌恶地望着那个前几天曾经欺骗过她的小贩。
• He must inform the vendor immediately.他必须立即通知卖方。