A woman won $25,000 after entering a sweepstakes at an Illinois gambling parlor.

一名女子进入伊利诺斯州一家赌场，抽奖赢得了2.5万美元。

That's great! That's like winning the sweepstakes.

{\an2}简直像中乐透嘛。

Holy shit! That's great! That's like winning the sweepstakes. Isn't it?

妈了！就像中大奖了。不是吗？

A sweepstake for when you'll be fired.

就你什么时候被炒鱿鱼打赌。

Let's back up to 2017, when Amazon first announced their HQ2 hunt. Right off the bat, the sweepstakes led to silly, folksy gimmicks by local politicians.

回到2017年，当亚马逊第一次们第二总部竞标时。一开始，这些抽奖活动导致当地政界人士愚蠢，平易近人花招。

Every year or two, one of the local papers—the Portland Press-Herald, the Lewiston Sun, the Lisbon Weekly Enterprise—would do a piece on all the weird shit Dodie's folks had won in raffles and sweepstakes and giant prize drawings.

每隔一两年当地报纸——《波特兰先驱报》，路易斯顿《阳报》，里斯本《周报》——就做篇稿子报道嘟蒂家人参加各种抽奖、买彩票、礼品大放送赢来那些莫名其妙破烂。