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The Million Pound Note(故事简介) This time I want to talk about a very famous short story written by Mark Twain---------“The Million Pound Note”. Referring to （提到，提起）Mark Twain, you must feel familiar（熟悉的, because we must have read his works before. I still remember the article “ The Bite Events on the Train” 《火车上的噬人事件》in our textbook when I’m in the middle school. What touched me most at that time were his ironic（具有讽刺意味的） words. Yes, he is a great humorist, novelist, writer and orator in America in nineteenth century. During his 40 years’ writing career, he created dozens of short or long stories. This story tells about a poor but honest American Adam Henry. When he was wandering （ 徘徊 ）in the street of London, he was given by two billionaires a letter, in which he surprisedly found a ￡1,000,000 pound bank-note. Later he got to know that the two billionaires who were brothers had made a bet about the results after he got a one million-pound note at once. One of them thought the note wound count for nothing（毫无价值） to the poor man because he could not prove that the money was his own while the other considered just as the opposite. Dramatically（戏剧性地 ） , the plot（剧情 ） went just out of my expectation. Herry went to a restaurant to have dinner first. The manager was mean to him at the beginning but his attitude changed quickly when Herry took out the note and asked for change. Faced with a millionaire, the manager apologized again and again and obsequiously（谄媚地; 逢迎地）told Henry that he didn’t need to pay for the bill right now. So Herry managed to have a free dinner. Then similarly, Herry went to a clothing shop and got a suit of clothes costing him nothing. Like the plot above, people are curious of such a rich man and tried every means to cozy up to（拉拢，奉承） him, from free food， free clothes to free accommodation（住宿）. At the same time, his social status（地位） was becoming higher and higher and finally higher than most dukes（公爵）. Apart from that, he later got a beautiful wife and 200,000 pounds of bank interest(利息）. I can imagine a bright future was waiting for him. . Even now it gives us an impressive lesson. Yes, I cannot deny the importance of money to a person who wants to survive. We won’t live without money, with which we get food, clothes, house and many other necessities. But we must know that there are many things which can’t be bought with money such as love or friendship. So in my opinion, money may be important to us, but not the most important. We need to build up the correct sense of money. To sum up, this story is a really good work of Mark Twain. The lesson I’ve learnt from it makes me want to be an honest man sincerely and lets me not to worship(崇拜，爱慕) money too much. I begin to regret not reading it earlier. 本文来源：https://www.dywdw.cn/cdbb114e986648d7c1c708a1284ac850ad0204c4.html
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2023-03-16
