a means of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random 抽彩给奖法 ■[in sing.]a process or thing whose success or outcome is governed by chance 碰巧的事,难于算计的事 the lottery of life. 生活的机缘。
语源
mid 16th cent.: probably from Dutch loterij, from lot 'lot'