Mr White has a small shop in the middle of our town, and he sells pictures in it. They are not expensive ones, but some of them are quite pretty. Last Saturday a woman came into the shop and looked at a lot of pictures. Then she took Mr White to one of them and said, “How much do you want for this one?” It was a picture of horses in a field.
怀特先生在我们镇的中央有一家小商店，他在里面卖画。那些画不贵，但是它们中有些非常漂亮。上一星期六，一个妇女来到店里，看了许多画。然后她把怀特先生带到其中一幅画前，说：“这一幅你要多少钱？”那是一幅在田地里的马的画。
Mr White looked at it for a few seconds and then went and brought his book. He opened it, looked at the first page and then said, “I want twenty pounds for that one.”
怀特先生看了几秒钟，然后去拿来了他的本子。他把本子打开，看了看第一页，然后说：“那一幅画我要20英镑。”
The woman shut her eyes for a few seconds and then said, “I can give you two pounds for it.”
妇女把眼睛闭上了几秒钟，然后说：“我可以出两英镑。”
“Two pounds?” Mr White said angrily. “Two pounds? But the canvas cost more than two pounds.”
“两英镑？”怀特先生生气地说。“两英镑？可是那块画布本来就值两英镑多呢。”
“Oh, but it was clean then,” the woman said.
“哦，不过它当时是干净的呀，”妇女说。
