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大学英语综合教程二第二单元 Task b Does being rich mean you live a completely different life from ordinary people? Not, it seems, if your name is Sam Walton. 有钱是否意味着过一种完全不同于普通人的生活？看来未必，如果你的名字叫萨姆·沃尔顿。 保存笔记 关闭 0. The Richest Man in America, Down HomeArt Harris R T 1. He put on a dinner jacket to serve as a waiter at the birthday party of The Richest Man in America. He imagined what surely awaited: a mansion, a Rolls-Royce for every day of the week, dogs with diamond collars, servants everywhere. ?????????????????????????美国乡巴佬首富?????????????????????????????????????阿特·哈里斯他穿上餐服准备到美国首富的生日聚会上去担任侍者。在他的想像里，他定然会看到：豪宅、主人天天要坐的罗尔斯-罗伊斯轿车、戴着钻石颈圈的家犬、到处可见的仆人。 保存笔记 关闭 1. R T 2. Then he was off to the house, wheeling past the sleepy town square in Bentonville, a remote Arkansas town of 9,920, where Sam Walton started with a little dime store that grew into a $6 billion discount chain called Wal-Mart. He drove down a country road, turned at a mailbox marked Sam and Helen Walton, and jumped out at a house in the woods. 他动身前往那所宅邸，开着车穿过本顿维尔镇冷冷清清的市政广场。本顿维尔镇是阿肯色州一个仅有9,920人口的偏远小镇，萨姆·沃尔顿就在该镇从一个专卖廉价商品的小店起家，小店逐渐发展成为价值60亿美金资产的折扣连锁店沃尔玛公司。 侍者上了一条乡间车道，转过一个标着“萨姆和海伦·沃尔顿”的信箱，在一幢林间住宅前跳下了车。 保存笔记 关闭 2. R T 3. It was nice, but no palace. The furniture appeared a little worn. An old pickup truck sat in the garage and a muddy bird dog ran about the yard. He never spotted any servants. 房子还不错，但绝对不是宫殿。家具略显陈旧，一辆旧的轻便货车停在车库里，一条土褐色的捕禽猎犬在院子里窜来窜去。根本没看见任何仆人的身影。 保存笔记 关闭 3. R T 4. It was a real disappointment, sighs waiter Jamie Beaulieu. “太令人失望了，”侍者杰米·鲍尤叹道。 保存笔记 关闭 4. R T 5. Only in America can a billionaire carry on like plain folks and get away with it. And the 67-year-old discount king Sam Moore Walton still travels these windy back roads in his 1979 Ford pickup, red and white, bird dogs by his side, and, come shooting season, waits in line like everyone else to buy shells at the local Wal-Mart. 只有在美国，一个亿万富翁才能像普通百姓一样，安稳地过着普普通通的日子。67岁的折扣店大王萨姆·穆尔·沃尔顿仍然开着他那辆红白两色的1979年出厂的福特牌轻型货车穿行在弯弯曲曲的乡间小道上，身边坐着他的捕禽猎犬。当狩猎季节来临时，他跟别人一样在