名词

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生意场上

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1. 许多；很多；大量
A lot of something or lots of it is a large amount of it. A lot of people or things, or lots of them, is a large number of them.

2. 很；非常
A lot means to a great extent or degree.

3. 常常；往往；长久地
If you do something a lot, you do it often or for a long time.

4. （一）组；（一）批；（一）群
You can use lot to refer to a set or group of things or people.

5. （特定的）（一）类（人）
You can refer to a specific group of people as a particular lot.

6. （指刚提到的数量的）全部，整个儿
You can use the lot to refer to the whole of an amount that you have just mentioned.

7. 际遇；境况；命运
Your lot is the kind of life you have or the things that you have or experience.

8. （一小块）土地
A lot is a small area of land that belongs to a person or company.

9. 一件（或成组的一批）拍卖品
A lot in an auction is one of the objects or groups of objects that are being sold.

10. 抽签；抓阄
If people draw lots to decide who will do something, they each take a piece of paper from a container. One or more pieces of paper is marked, and the people who take marked pieces are chosen.

11. 决心与…共命运；决定与…站在一起
If you throw in your lot with a particular person or group, you decide to work with them and support them from then on, whatever happens.

1. anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random

e.g. the luck of the draw
they drew lots for it

Synonym: draw

2. any collection in its entirety

e.g. she bought the whole caboodle

Synonym: bunchcaboodle

3. an unofficial association of people or groups

e.g. the smart set goes there
they were an angry lot

Synonym: setcircleband

4. a parcel of land having fixed boundaries

e.g. he bought a lot on the lake

5. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

e.g. a batch of letters
a deal of trouble
a lot of money
he made a mint on the stock market
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
it must have cost plenty
a slew of journalists
a wad of money

Synonym: batchdealflockgood dealgreat dealhatfulheapmassmessmicklemintmountainmucklepasselpeckpileplentypotquite a littleraftsightslewspatestacktidy sumwad

6. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

e.g. whatever my fortune may be
deserved a better fate
has a happy lot
the luck of the Irish
a victim of circumstances
success that was her portion

Synonym: fortunedestinyfateluckcircumstancesportion