标题: 每日英语故事：5月24日：A Miser Man [打印本页] 作者: xiaogua 时间: 2012-5-25 11:20 标题: 每日英语故事：5月24日：A Miser Man
本帖最后由 xiaogua 于 2012-5-28 14:53 编辑
A very stingy man who had no pleasure but that of making money by sold his all, namely, his place and fields, and forged all the money he received into a mass of gold, and buried it in the ground. Every day he visited the spot, which was one of his daily greatest pleasures.
Then a man who occasionally came to the neighborhood saw this miser digging up the earth with joy. When this neighbor went there and dug the earth, he found a buried treasure, to his great astonishment. He resolved to run off with it outright. When the miser came to the spot the following day, he found his treasure missing, to his great amazement. It furious agony（痛苦） and desperation, he cursed God and man tearing his hair like a mad man. When a pedestrian （行人）asked him of his bitter sorrow, the miser told his story in great detail, but the passenger comforted and consoled him, saying, “You need not cry over your loss of treasure. I think your loss is not so great as you think. Bury in that place a stone of the same size in place of your mass of gold, and regard it as your lost one. You will hardly tell the difference the two, because, as far as you are concerned, gold is all one with a stone in point of utility.”
Happiness does not consist in owning money, but in reasonable using of it.作者: 小钰钰 时间: 2012-5-28 14:02
making money sold his all 不理解啊作者: xiaopengyou 时间: 2012-5-28 14:09
Happiness does not consist in owning money, but in reasonable using of it.
i like this sentence
because i am a moonlite。作者: xiaogua 时间: 2012-5-28 14:52
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