英语美文段落加翻译mp3在线听Paying to Win

 　　Paying to Win有付出才会有收获

　　Tom noticed that every morning when he went to school, his mother would give him a letter to drop in the mailbox on the corner. "Who are you writing to so much?" he asked. "I'm just trying my luck," Tom's mother told him.

　　汤姆注意到，每天早上当他去上学的时候，他的母亲都会往街角的邮箱里塞一封信。”你写给谁这么多信？”他问。我只是想试试运气，”汤姆的妈妈告诉他。

　　A few weeks after Tom started mailing out the letters, he noticed that his mother was getting a lot more mail. Some of the mail advertised on the envelope that she might already be a winner. His mother was also getting many more magazines. Some of the magazines were about things his mother didn't eve care about, like cats.

　　信件寄出几个星期后，汤姆开始发现他的母亲收到了更多的邮件。信封上的一些广告说，她可能早已是一个赢家。他的母亲也得到了更多的杂志。一些杂志上的东西是他母亲以前根本不关心的，比如说猫。

　　"Mom, why are you getting so many magazines?" Tom asked her. She told him that she had been entering contests and that part of the process included subscribing to magazines. "It will increase my chances of winning the jackpot," she told him. Soon the family mailbox was filled with more contests announcements, magazines, and bills.

　　“妈妈，你为什么订那么多杂志？”汤姆问她。她告诉他，她参加了一场比赛，比赛的过程就包括订阅杂志。”这会提高我中奖的机会。”她告诉他。很快家庭的邮箱就装满了更多的竞赛公告、杂志和法案。

　　Tom's mother was surprised. She didn't think that checking off the boxes of magazines that looked interesting and affixing stickers to the return forms would cost her. She was spending more and more money and hadn't won anything. She wanted to be like the people in the commercials she saw on television. People bringing balloons and oversized checks surprised those people who entered the contests. Tom read the fine print. The magazines weren't free and Tom's mother was not increasing her chances of winning anything by subscribing. Tom did some research and found out there had even been lawsuits against the companies running the contests and selling the magazine subscriptions.

　　汤姆的妈妈很惊讶。她觉得订那些有趣的杂志和贴上邮票寄信不会花费他很多钱。她花了越来越多的钱，并没有赢得任何东西。她想成为像她在电视广告里上看到的人一样，大家带来了很多气球和超大型的支票给那些参加比赛的人一个惊喜。汤姆读了一行小字。杂志不是免费的，汤姆的母亲认为增加她订阅可以增加胜利的机会是错的，他又做了一些研究，发现以前有人对这种销售的杂志的这种事情进行诉讼。

　　Tom's mother felt bad. "It pays to win, mom, but you can't pay to win," Tom told her. Tom's mother wondered what she was going to do with all these magazines.

　　汤姆的母亲感到难过。”有付出才会有回报，妈妈， 天上没有掉馅饼的事。”汤姆告诉她。他的妈妈不知道该怎么处理这些杂志。