美國女子誤將中26萬美元彩票送他人

A California woman’s generosity may have cost her $260,000, without her knowing it.
加利福利亞一名大方的女子已經在不知不覺中爲她的慷慨花費了26萬美元。

Emily Leach, a nurse at a veterans affairs hospital in Palo Alto who is still celebrating a $1 million Lotto win earlier this year, says she inadvertently handed a stranger her second winning Lotto ticket, The Mercury News reported.
據澳大利亞水星報報道，艾米麗裏奇是帕洛阿爾託醫院的護士，年初中了一百萬美元的樂透大獎。裏奇表示她無意中把自己第二次中獎的彩票給了一個陌生人。

She says last Friday she handed $100 bill to a man standing behind her on line at Liquor & Tobacco, a convenience store in Mountain View, Calif., the paper reported. But she told the paper that she accidentally mixed up a winning $260,000 lottery ticket with the money that she handed a man who appeared to be struggling financially.
報紙寫道：她說上週五在加利福利亞的便利店中，將100美金給了排在她後面的男子。但她告訴記者，她居然不慎把26萬美金的樂透彩票和錢放在一起給了這個看上去很窮困潦倒的男人。

The unidentified man reportedly returned to the store to say he had the ticket, and some of Leach’s good fortune may have rubbed off on him after she bought him the winning ticket. Leach denies that account.
這位不明身份的男人據說不久後返回便利店，拿着這張彩票說裏奇的運氣“傳染”給了他，但裏奇則否認了這一說法。

"That’s my ticket," Leach, a pancreatic cancer survivor who once owed $300,000 in medical bills, told the paper. "He knows it's my ticket. I feel like I'm going to come off as a huge, huge bitch if I say, 'You need to give me my ticket back.'"
“這是我的彩票”，曾因胰腺癌支付30萬美金醫療費用的裏奇告訴記者，“他知道這是我的彩票，我知道這麼說可能有點不知羞恥，但我必須對他說：你得把我的彩票還給我”

The ticket holder has not come forward and Lotto officials are investigating the matter, the paper reported. Store surveillance video may be a helpful tool, the report said.
據報道，持彩票的男人此後並沒有現身，樂透彩票主管部門也表示會調查此事，希望店內的監控錄像能幫上大忙。

"They're going to look at the video and see if she's the one actually buying the ticket. If no one else is in the picture, that puts things firmly in her favor," Alex Traverso, a spokesman for the lottery commission told the paper.
“他們準備看錄像，確認她是否真的買了那張彩票。如果圖像裏除她之外別無他人，那當然要給她這筆錢。”樂透的發言人 Alex Traverso對記者說道。