English translation of "avait l'acquis d'un billet gagnant" - "he was on a winning streak"

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162 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	avait l'acquis d'un billet gagnant
Context:	Le gouvernement avait consenti à octroyer au jeune talent une bourse universitaire. Tous..
Keywords:	...les frais, engendrés par les études et la vie dans la capitale malaysienne, avaient été spnsorisés par l'état, ouvrant ainsi à Lou Jian un avenir inesperé pour un garçon de sa condtiion sociale. Le jeune homee avait compris que, ce jour-là, il avait l'acquis d'un billet gagnant.

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162 months ago

wrote:

he was on a winning streak

My comment:

???

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162 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

had won the lottery

My comment:

Literally, "he had acquired a winning ticket", but that's not very idiomatic.

162 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

had won the lottery

My comment:

Literally, "he had acquired a winning ticket", but that's not very idiomatic.

162 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

he'd won that future from playing the right ticket

My comment:

It's gotten the avenir inespéré.

il l'avait acquis [l'=the future he could never have dreamed of having]......he played the right ticket by applying for a scholarship I suppose.

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