a situation in which the amount or type of medical treatment that is provided to people depends on the particular area of the country they live in 邮编幸运医疗（在英国指能得到的医保程度或方式取决于居住的地区） Infertility treatment runs by a postcode lottery—some health authorities will fund it, others won’t. 不孕症治疗是通过邮政彩票进行的，一些卫生部门会为此提供资金，而其他卫生部门则不会。 Her plight highlighted the ‘postcode lottery’ faced by cancer patients. 她的困境突出了癌症患者面临的“邮政编码彩票”。