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42 A rich father
42 有錢的老爸
John D．Rockefeller, the wellknown millionaire contributed millions to the poor who suffered disasters, but he himself was very mean about small sums of money. One day he went to stay at a hotel in New York and asked for the cheapest room in it. He said,“I am staying here alone and only need a small room."
著名的百萬富翁，約翰·戴維德·洛克菲勒，為受災的窮人捐款達數百萬元，但他本人在小錢上卻非常節儉。有一天，他去住紐約的一家旅館，要了旅館里最便宜的房間。他說：“我一個人住在這兒，只需要一個小房間。”
The manager showed him into a room and said,“This is our cheapest room with simply equipment,” and added,“but why do you choose a poor room like this? When your son stays here, he always has our most luxurious room, yours is our cheapest."
旅館經理領他到一個房間里，說：“這是我們這里最小最便宜的房間，只有簡單的設備。”接著又說：“可是你為什么要選這么差的房間呢？您的公子每次住在我們這里，都要最豪華的房間；而您卻住最便宜的。”
"Oh! yes, I envy him very much,"said Rockefeller,"because his father is a rich man but mine isn't."
“哦，是的，我很羨慕他。”洛克菲勒說：“他的老爸是個有錢人；我老爹卻不是。”
