万花筒 2008-11-12&11-13 一百美元买座房！

Do you know? When I bought this bag for about 100 dollars, I thought pretty good deal. That was until I realized I could own this entire home for the same price. 100 bucks¹ and it’s yours.

 

 “This is the little kitchen with the little dinette. I used to use it as a sunroom. But we are kinda getting ready to move.”

 

Four bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,500 square feet, lake access in Waterford, all for the rock bottom price of just 100 dollars.

 

“It’s been up for sale for a couple of years, you know, and you get offers for half. Well, somebody wants to sell it for half, let them win it, and they can sell it for half, put the money in their pocket"

 

Joe and Penelope VanDevelder have lived here for 18 years. They've tried for the last two to sell their house with no luck. Then one day Joe had an idea--raffle² the house off.

 

“And I came home from work, and he said like "I have this idea" and I just laughed. I thought, you have to be out of your mind. Nobody can raffle their house. He said "I will make it work". And he did and here we are.”

 

Each ticket is 100 dollars and they are on sale right now. They are hoping to sell about 2,500. And so far the response has been overwhelming³.

 

“Our Phones start ringing like crazy. We are really glad. We hope somebody that really needs it wins.”

 

1 bucks   

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
• They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 raffle   

n.废物，垃圾，抽奖售卖；v.以抽彩出售

参考例句：

• The money was raised by the sale of raffle tickets.这笔款子是通过出售购物彩券筹集的。
• He won a car in the raffle.他在兑奖售物活动中赢得了一辆汽车。

3 overwhelming   

adj.势不可挡的，压倒的，无法抵抗的

参考例句：

• The flood was overwhelming and the city was soon drowned.洪水来势凶猛，很快这个城市就被淹没了。
• The act was adopted by an overwhelming majority.该法案以压倒多数通过。