Millions of people buy lottery tickets because they covet to be millionaires.

数以百万计的人买乐透彩券，因为大家都想做百万富翁。

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Most people, however, went to buy lottery tickets not expecting to win anything at all, but were quite prepared to lose a few yuan.

而大多数人买彩票并不是为了能中到什么奖，他们并不在乎花掉几元钱。

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Perhaps, the psychologists hypothesized, people who buy lottery tickets tend to be melancholy to begin with, and this had skewed the results.

心理学家假设道，也许买彩票的人在重新开始的时候会变得忧郁，而就是这种变化使得调查结果发生改变。

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By the way, if you're wondering whether I buy lottery tickets, the answer is no.

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