赖世雄英语新闻听力通 第34期:发财梦难圆

(CALGARY, Alberta, Reuters)A Canadian company made a$99 million mistake.

(路透社亚柏达省卡尔格瑞电)加拿大的一家公司犯了一个高达九千九百万美元之离谱的错误。

Ultramar Canada Ltd. said it distributed 314,000 scratch-and-win tickets.

加拿大欧查玛有限公司表示，该公司售出三十一万四千张刮刮乐彩票。

Of those, just three were supposed to be grand prizes.

在这些彩票之中，本来应该只有三张是头奖。

The printer had accidentally printed 100,000 coupons giving C$1,500 prizes.

不过印刷机却意外地印出十万张奖额一千五百元加币的彩票。

The company said it did not have to honor the coupons.

这家公司表示，他们不须承兑这些彩票。