【读新闻学英语】男子卖掉中奖的保时捷买房，两天后又中一辆保时捷
2019年10月14日 15:14
Plumber Tom Harvey consoled himself that selling his prize Porsche would raise the deposit for a new house… only to win another two days later.
水管工Tom Harvey安慰自己说，卖掉他那辆得奖的保时捷可以增加买新房的首付，但两天后他又中奖了。
Plumber：水管工
Console：安慰；抚慰；慰藉
Deposit：存款；押金；首付
The 28-year-old first won a Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS worth $219,000 on Boxing Day in 2017 – along with $40,000 in cash – after entering an online spot-the-ball competition.
28岁的Harvey在网上了参加体育博彩（spot-the-ball），在2017年的Boxing Day，他赢得一辆价值$219,000的保时捷（Porsche 911 Carrera 4 GTS），另外还有$40,000现金。
Along with：连同…一起；与…一道；随同…一起
Incredibly, last week he won another model – this time a Macan S worth just a shade under $99,800 – and another $40,000 in cash. His two windfalls total $396,000.
令人难以置信的是，上周他又赢得了另外一款保时捷，这一次是价值略低于$99,800的保时捷Macan，同样还有$40,000现金。他的两笔横财共计$396,000。
Incredibly：难以置信地
Windfall：意外之财；意外获得的东西
But the biggest cause for celebration was that he had just sold his first win for about $179,000 last Sunday to use as a deposit on a new house with his partner – two days before learning he had won his second dream car.
但是，值得庆祝的最大原因是，上周日，他刚刚以$179,000的价格卖出了自己第一辆中奖的保时捷，用这笔钱作为和他的伴侣购买一套新房子的资金。就在两天之后，他得知自己赢得了第二辆保时捷。
Celebration：庆祝
Commenting on his good fortune, Tom, from Dartford, Kent, admitted that he was "gobsmacked" by the win.
"I must be one of the luckiest men on the planet at the moment," he said.
在谈到自己的好运气时，他对这次中奖表示“惊呆了”。“此刻，我一定是这个星球上最幸运的人之一。”
Good fortune：好运
Gobsmacked：目瞪口呆的；大吃一惊的
Tom, who was attending a plumbing course in Essex with his father Bill when he received news of the latest win, added: "I just ditched the course and went straight to Porsche in East London.
"I seriously never thought I'd win once, let alone twice, so I'm properly gobsmacked."
在收到这个中奖消息的时候，Tom和他的父亲Bill正在Essex参加一个管道工培训工程。他说，“我课都没有上了，直奔伦敦东部的保时捷店。我真的从没想过我能中一次奖，更别说两次了，所以我真的惊呆了。”
Ditch：抛弃；摆脱；丢弃
最后，小编也顺便提醒下大家，想中大奖别忘了本周也还有一夜暴富的机会！
详情请点击：依然没人中奖，强力球奖金累积至3800万纽币！
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