休闲英语对话：关于一块钱买黄金？天上掉馅饼！的情景会话
你听说过苏格拉底吗，本?
Ben: Yes,I have.He was one of the greatest philosophers of Ancient Greece.
听说过。他是古希腊最伟大的哲学家之一。
Joe: Then are you interested in listening to a story about him?
那你有兴趣听一个关于他的故事吗?
Ben: Yes,go ahead.
好，开始吧。
Joe: In the city that Socrastes was living in,a rich woman was selling a carriage with much gold and many gemstones on it.
在苏格拉底居住的城市，一位富婆正在出售一辆外表缀满了黄金和宝石的马车。
Ben: Wow!How much was the carriage?It must be very expensive!
哇!那得多少钱啊!一定很贵吧?
Joe: No,you're wrong.It wasn't expensive at all,it cost you only one coin!
不，你错了。一点都不贵，你只消花一枚硬币就够了。
Ben: One coin!Are you kidding?Don't forget that there was much gold and many gemstones on it!
一枚硬币!你在忽悠我呢吧?别忘了那上面可是镶满了黄金和宝石呀!
Joe: Maybe you are right,but the carriage did cost you only one coin.Just like what you said,no one in the city believed that.They thought the woman just fooled them.
或许你是对的，但这辆马车确实只卖一枚硬币。正如你所说，这座城市里没人相信这回事，他们以为这女人是在拿他们寻开心。
Ben: But is the story about Socrates?
可这和苏格拉底有关吗?
Joe: Don't cut in line ,let me go on the story.Socrates sent one coin to the woman when he heard the news.The people around him all thought he was foolish to do that, but after a few days,they stopped laughing at him because the woman sent the carriage to him!
别插嘴，让我讲完。听到这个消息，苏格拉底给那女人汇了一枚硬币，他周围的人都觉得他这么做很傻帽，但几天之后，他们却笑不出来了：那女人果真把马车送来了!
Ben: I can't understand.What was the matter?Why did the woman make the carriage so cheap?
我不明白。这是怎么一回事?为什么那个女人要把马车卖得这么贱?
Joe: Because her husband died not long ago.He was cheating on her before dying,and he told his wife to give the money that get from selling the carriage to his ladylove in his last words.She made the carriage so cheap just because she wanted to revenge on her husband and his ladylove.
因为她丈夫不久前死了。死前他对她不忠，他还在遗书中让妻子把卖马车所得的钱留给他的情妇。她之所以把马车卖得这么贱，就是为了报复丈夫和他的情妇。
Ben: Wow!The story is so interesting!And it tells me that if we try ,there's no impossible thing.
哇!这故事真有趣!同时它也告诉我，只要我们去尝试，就没有不可能的事。
