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英语加油站

CJ：亲爱的同学们，下午好！很高兴英 语加油站又与大家见面了，你们一定很
期待今天的节目吧！今天我们节目的主题是money，钱。相信 大家听到这个主题
心里都会激动一翻。在这个物质社会，虽然说钱不是万能的，但没钱是万万不
能的。可能十个人出来会有九个想成为大老板，赚很多很多的钱吧。今天，在
我们板块的第一部分，我们 将给大家介绍gold fever，淘金热的故事。板块的第
二部分，我们收集了很多有关money 的名言或感想。你一定也在你的心底想过
你对money的感想吧！第三部分是一篇小散文：如果我是一 个百万富翁。好了，
赶快让你的思绪随我们的英语加油站开溜一下吧！

Fashion beat
ZXH：In 1848, when gold was discovered in California, John Sutter was already one
of the wealthiest people in the state. By 1850 he was a ruined man.

CJ: A private empire
Sutter was a Swiss immigrate who came to California in 1839, intend on building his
own private empire. At that time, the state distant outpost that only a handful of
Americans had seen. San Francisco had just a few hundred residents.

ZXH: Sutter built a fort, and soon he had 12000 head of cattle and hundreds of
workers. By the mind-1840s, more and more Americans were trickling into California
by wagon and ship. Sutter welcomed the newcomers: he saw them as subjects for his
new kingdom.

CJ: Sutter welcomed the newcomers: he saw them as subjects for his new kingdom.
But he had no idea that the trickle would become a flood, a deluge of humanity that
would destroy his dream.

ZXH: At the beginning of 1848, Sutter sent James Marshall and about 20 men to the
American River to build a sawmill. It was nearly complete when a glint of something
caught Marshall` s eye.

CJ: Later he wrote, ?I reached my hand down and picked it up; it made my heart
thump, for I was certain it was gold. The piece was about half the size and shape of a
tea. Then I saw another.

ZXH: By the end of the year, whispers of a gold strike had drifted eastward across the
country—but a few easterners believed it until President James Polk made a statement
to Congress on December fifth 1848.

CJ: The discovery, he declared was a fact. Within days ?gold fever? descended on the
country. The news was telegraphed to every village, to every town.

ZXH: Hundreds of thousands of people, almost all of them men, begin to prepare for
the epic journey west. They sold possessions, mortgaged farms, borrowed money, and
banded together with others from their towns to form joint stock companies.

CJ: They said their goodbyes and streamed west—thousands of young adventures
willing to take a chance on gold: a year of pain in return for a lifetime of riches.

ZXH: They were called ?Forty-niners? because they left home in 1849 when they
would return was another matter entirely.

CJ: By early 1849, gold fever was an epidemic. By the end of 1850, Sutter` s grand
empire had completely collapsed. Sutter did not have gold fever.

ZXH: He wanted an agriculture empire and refused to alter his vision. In the new
California, he was simply in the way. The Forty-niners trampled his crops and tore
down his fort for the building materials.

CJ: Disillusioned, he eventually left the state. The man who had the best opportunity
to capitalize on the discovery of gold never even tried.


Wander time
ZXH：As everyone knows, money is not everything, but without money we could do
nothing. I have dreamed of being a I were a millionaire one day, I would
do three great things.

CJ： If I were a millionaire, first of all, I would purchase a big and beautiful house for
my parents and make them live comfortably and happily, because no one can deny
that parents? love for their children is the greatest love in the world.

ZXH：It?s my parents who give me the most precious gift—my life. It?s my parents
who have sacrificed most in bringing me up and educating me, never expecting for
any return.

CJ: So it is not surprising that I would think of their needs first if I became a
millionaire. One day if I were a millionaire, I would travel around the world.
Experiencing is believing.

ZXH: I have been dreaming of seeing other parts of the world since my childhood.
Foreign cultures and customs are always appealing to me. My traveling experiences
will certainly help me broaden my horizons and sharpen my language skills.

ZXH：Last but not least, if I were a millionaire, I would establish a scholarship in my
name. Nowadays some of my peers are worried about their tuition and living expenses
on campus.

CJ: If I were rich enough, I would help those who work very hard but have little
money for higher education and further studies. As a result, my money could help
them upgrade their lives.

ZXH：In a word, if I were a millionaire one day, I would not only fulfill my dreams
but also would do my best to help others realize their dreams. I wish that day would
come soon.


Leisure castle
ZXH: Time is money
——Benjamin Franklin.

CJ: Money is not everything, but without money, everything is nothing.
——Aristotle

ZXH: Money makes the mare to go.

CJ: Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but
not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not
loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness.
——H. Ibsen

ZXH: Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
——Albert Einstein

CJ: Money is a good servant and a bad master,
——Francis Bacon.

ZXH: Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in
America. If I'm not there， I go to work. ——
Robert Robin

CJ: It ' s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to
check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money
can't buy.
-----George Horace Lorimar

ZXH: A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
——Jonathan Swift ，Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist

CJ: Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.”
——Owen Laughlin

ZXH: We are a people consumed by financial stress.

CJ: Money is a raw material to be used rather than amassed.

ZXH: Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

CJ: The couple in “Elias” lived a happier life when they became poor.