And economists -- forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery -- but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet -- which, by the way, doesn't require that you actually go to the store and buy anything.
经济学家——你们中间买彩票的人 请原谅我这么说—— 至少经济学家们， 认为买彩票是一种 为愚蠢交的税，因为买彩票 中大奖的几率， 几乎和你直接用马桶 把钱冲掉是一样的—— 起码这样还不用你费力 跑到商店去买一趟。