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背景知识 1. About the ￡1, 000,000 Bank-note 英格兰银行出于特殊的需要发行了两张面值一百万的钞票，其中一张收回并作废，但还有一张却留在银行，两兄弟打赌，一个身无分文的人带着这张钞票会发生什么，兄弟A说会死去，兄弟B说他肯定能活一个月。他们物色了一个年轻人做试验，带着这张毫无使用价值的百万英镑钞票。年轻人走进商店买东西，拿出钞票要求找钱，店老板都震惊了并立刻改变态度，极力讨好这个年轻人，年轻人得到了他想得到的，包括爱情和受人尊敬。他爱上的女孩正是兄弟B的女儿。最后，百万英磅被银行收回并作废，年轻人过上了幸福的生活。 The Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds, to be used for a special purpose connected with some public transaction with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one of these had been used and canceled; the other still lay in the vaults of the Bank. Well, the brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wonder what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned adrift in London without a friend, and with no money but that million-pound bank-note, and no way to account for his being in possession of it. Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn’t. Brother A said he couldn’t offer it at a bank or anywhere else, because he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on disputing till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days. They thought “me” to be the right person, a poor, honest and intelligent stranger. They handed “me” an envelope that contained ￡1,000,000 bank-note. “I”, dressed in rag, with nothing but a bank-note, got into a restaurant. “I” took the banknote to pay for the bill and asked for changes. The boss who looked down upon me at first changed his attitude completely. He flattered me that I could have anything I wanted, any time I chose, and let the account run as long as I pleased. They all treated me as an honored guest. Then “I” got into a tailor’s shop, the same thing happened. “I” drifted naturally into buying whatever I wanted, and asking for change. “I” owned the respect and fell in love with a girl, Portia. Everything went well having ￡1,000,000 bank-note on “me”. After a month, Brothers returned, to my surprise, one of them was My Portia’s