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# 残钞鉴别组

## 课文学习台 {#study}

### 第1段

Has it ever happened to you? Have you ever put your trousers in the washing machine and then remembered there was a large bank note in your back pocket? When you rescued your trousers, did you find the note was whiter than white? People who live in Britain needn't despair when they make mistakes like this and a lot of people do! Fortunately for them, the Bank of England has a team called Mutilated Ladies which deals with claims from people who fed their money to a machine or to their dog. Dogs, it seems, love to chew up money!

中文理解：这种事情在你身上出现过吗？你有没有把裤子丢进洗衣机，然后又意识到裤子后兜里有一张大面值的纸币？当你把裤子抢救出来时，你有没有发现那张纸币变得比白纸还白？生活在英国的人们犯这种错误时，不必感到绝望（而且还真有不少人犯这种错误）！对英国人来说，值得庆幸的是英国银行有一个残钞鉴别组，负责处理那些把钱塞进机器或塞给狗的人提出的索赔要求。看起来，狗很喜欢咬纸币。

* **deals with**：停下来 / 返回 / 处理；和动作对象一起理解；deal with 既能处理问题，也能讨论主题。

#### 这一段的读法与用法

注释：\[上版make mistakes 拼写有误，感谢读者微博@久頠同学指出20200201]①标题：lady 指英国纸币上印的女王头像。②happened = occurred。③remembered = recalled。④原文中的这个括号是本来有的，不是做定语哦！⑤Fortunately = Luckily。

\[语法符号讲解] \[1]本句there be 句型所接的句子作remembered 的宾语从句，这里省略了that，故我们在there 的前两个字母下面画宾语从句起始符号，在pocket 句末画下划线，表示宾语从句到此结束。下一句也是如此，find 后面也是省略了that 的宾语从句。

### 第2段

A recent case concerns Jane Butlin whose fiancé, John, runs a successful furniture business. John had a very good day and put his wallet containing £3,000 into the microwave oven for safekeeping. Then he and Jane went horse-riding. When they got home, Jane cooked their dinner in the microwave oven and without realizing it, cooked her fiancé's wallet as well. Imagine their dismay when they found a beautifully-cooked wallet and notes turned to ash! John went to see his bank manager who sent the remains of wallet and the money to the special department of the Bank of England in Newcastle: the Mutilated Ladies! They examined the remains and John got all his money back. "So long as there's something to identify, we will give people their money back,"said a spokeswoman for the Bank. "Last year, we paid £1.5m on 21,000 claims."

中文理解：最近的一个案例与简·巴特林有关，她的未婚夫约翰做着红红火火的家具生意。约翰结束了生意特别好的一天，他把一只装有 3,000英镑的钱包放进微波炉内保存。然后，他和简一起去骑马。回家后，简用微波炉做了晚饭，无意之中把她未婚夫的钱包也一起烤了。可以想象，他们发现钱包被烤得“恰到好处”、钞票化成灰时，该有多沮丧！约翰去找银行经理，经理把约翰的钱包和纸币的残骸送到英国银行在纽卡斯尔的一个专门部门—— 残钞鉴别组。他们鉴定了这些残骸。约翰拿回了全部损失的钱。“只要有东西可供识别，我们会把钱还给人家的，”银行的一位女发言人说。“去年，我们对21,000起索赔要求支付了150万英镑。”

#### 这一段的读法与用法

注释：①concerns = is about。②fiancé是未婚夫，而未婚妻是fiancée，读音一样。③ dismay = sadness。④the remains = what was left。⑤department = section。⑥examine 是动词，而exam=examination，是名词，考试。⑦1.5m = 1.5million。

#### Summary 摘要

John Butlin runs a successful furniture business and after a very good day, he put his wallet containing £3,000 into the microwave oven for safekeeping. Then he and his fiancee, Jane, went horse-riding, after which Jane cooked their dinner in the microwave oven only to(却，不料) find to their dismay that the money had been destroyed. John went to see his bank manager who sent the remains to the Mutilated Ladies department who identified the remains and returned the money. (79 words)

#### Composition 作文

Jane opened the oven door and saw that her meal was ready to serve(准备就绪). She took the food out of the oven and in doing so, noticed something strange inside the oven which she couldn't recognize. So she went to find John and told him about it. In dismay(好悲催哦), John quickly explained that he had put his wallet containing the day's takings into the oven for safekeeping. They both rushed to the oven and saw that the money had been destroyed. At first, they didn't know what to do. John wanted to throw the money away, but Jane wouldn't let him. It's best not to disturb(句型，最好不要干某事) the wallet, Jane said. You can see all the money is there, even if it has been destroyed. Jane told John to go and see his bank manager for advice(寻求建议), so the next day John took the wallet and the ashes to the bank. (150 words)

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