名词

1. （通过发行彩票方式的）抽彩给奖法，博彩
A lottery is a type of gambling game in which people buy numbered tickets. Several numbers are then chosen, and the people who have those numbers on their tickets win a prize.

2. 听天由命的事；全凭运气的事
If you describe something as a lottery, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.

1. players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots

Synonym: drawing

2. something that is regarded as a chance event

e.g. the election was just a lottery to them