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This other building is called the Treasury.There is a picture of it on the 10 bill.In the Treasury is kept money of the United States.We write United States with two letters, U.S., and we write the sign for “dollars” with the same two letters, written one on top of the other, with the bottom of the “U” cut off—thus,.Paper money and postage-stamps are printed in another building.“You see that man over there turning the handle of that printing-press?” says the guide who shows you around.“He makes a million dollars a day!”“Whew! He must be the richest man in the World."0h, no.He only gets 5 a day."The money made out of silver, and gold, and copper is made in another city—not inWashington—at a place called the Mint.
那是財(cái)政部。10美元上就有它的圖案。美國的錢都由財(cái)政部保管。我們用U.S.這兩個(gè)字母表示美國，我們同 樣用這兩個(gè)字母表示“美元”，把一個(gè)字母寫在另一個(gè)上面，并把U的底下切掉一一這樣就變成了。“你看到那邊那個(gè)人在轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)印刷機(jī)手柄嗎？”帶你參觀的導(dǎo)游會(huì)這樣介紹說，“他一天制造一百萬美元！”“哇！他一定是世界上最有錢的人了。”“哦，不。他一天只掙5美金。”銀幣、金幣和銅幣是在另外一個(gè)城市制造的—不是在華盛頓—而是在一個(gè)叫鑄幣局的地方。
When-I-was-a-boy I had an old bookcase which I called my museum.In it I had a starfish, some shells, a bird's nest, a "gold"rock, and so forth.In Washington there is a large museum called the National Museum in which there is a huge collection of all sorts of curious and remarkable things from all over the World.
我小的時(shí)候有一個(gè)很老的書架，我把它叫做博物館。里面放了一只海星、一些貝殼、一個(gè)鳥窩、一塊“黃金”石等。在華 盛頓有一個(gè)非常大的博物館，叫做國家博物館，里面陳列著從世界各地搜集過來的各種各樣稀奇古怪、非同尋常的東西。
There are many white houses in the country, but next door to the Treasury is a White House that is different from any other, for in this house the President lives.There is a picture of it on the 20 bill.From the back porch of The White House the latest President of the United States can look across his back yard and see a monument to the First President—Washington.The Washington Monument Mis the highest piece of stone work in the World.
在全美國有很多白色的房子，但是要數(shù)財(cái)政部旁邊那個(gè)白宮最為與眾不同，因?yàn)槟鞘强偨y(tǒng)住的地方。20美元上面就有它的圖案。從白宮后面的走廊上美國在任總統(tǒng)可以看到在他的后院對(duì)面有一個(gè)紀(jì)念碑——此碑是為紀(jì)念第一任總統(tǒng)華盛頓而建的。華盛頓紀(jì)念碑是世界上最高的石方工程。
