CNN 2011-01-12

Well, their lives changed in an instant. Suddenly Jim and Carolyn McCullar from Washington state are mega millionaires. Jim says he knows exactly what to do with the money.

“Been married 41 years, I know what to do with this check. ”

That's right. Happy wife, happy life. He's a good man. Jim says they learned that they had the lucky tickets first on television. Then, confirmed it online.

You sit down, we had two chairs sitting there. Put the two chairs side by side, and I clicked on the Washington lottery¹ icon², and up came the winning numbers. And I said, Look at this, and look at that. She looked, and she studied, and she looked, and she studied, and she looked at me and screamed!

Tears started flowing down, and I looked at her, and I started crying. I thought -- all she could say was, Is this real? Is this real? And I said, I pinched myself already. We're awake, and this is real, and what are we going to do? What are we going to do? And I said, I have no idea, but we'd better hide.

The McCullars will split the $380 million prize with a winner in Idaho.

Well, some residents in Venice, Florida, are seeing orange. We're talking about a massive orange that's a crocodile. The rare creature tops or trek³ Cross Country. Sylvia Mythen captured pictures of the croc near a neighborhood pond. One biologist says that it's probably an albino. But the state fish and wildlife department believe that the orange coloring is from paint or stain.

An Atlanta valet says he's the luckiest cell phone owner alive. The phone actually blocked a bullet to his chest when gunfire erupted outside the nightclub where he works.

1 lottery   

n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事

参考例句：

• He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
• They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。

2 icon   

n.偶像，崇拜的对象，画像

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。

3 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。