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篇一：《百万英镑》小说新视野_2100字
摘要：《百万英镑》是马克•吐温杰出之作，其幽默与含蓄的犀利以及讽刺的社会现状深入人心，备受广大读者喜欢，被译成多国文字，笔者从背景知识、话语特色与主旨的传达的结合来分析此小说，希望能给各位读者新的视野。
关键词：百万英镑；证券交易所；《笨拙》杂志；幽默讽刺；夸张；间接塑造法
中图分类号：I06 文献标识码：B文章编号：1009-9166（2011）017(C)-0303-01
一、背景知识
阅读马克•吐温的《百万英镑》，第一件引人注目的恐怕就是那张一百万英镑的钞票了，很多读者一带而过，以为是作者纯粹的虚构，甚至以此作品作为论文的个别同学都不仔细求证，在论文中写道：“从表层上看，《百万英镑》完全是虚构的，因为其中的情节很荒诞，令人难以置信，如一张面额高达百万英镑的钞票，两个有钱人打赌，以及众多的夸张情节。但怪诞中有真实的东西：拜金主义，一切向钱看，有钱就能赢得尊重，没钱就会处处遭人白眼。”[1]这位作者想通过情节虚构反衬拜金主义的真实，但是这种不负责的学术态度必须戒除。事实上，英国政府确实发行过百万英镑的钞票。“英格兰银行于1948年印制了11张‘百万英镑’的巨额钞票，当时许多专家认为这样大面额的钞票弊多利少，不宜发行。英格兰银行决定予以销毁。但销毁了10张，还保留了1张。”[2]而第一次世界大战后德国面临的严重通货膨胀竟逼的当局于1924年发行史上最骇人听闻的高额纸币：100万亿马克纸币。当时一个月内面包涨价86倍多、肉涨价88倍多，钞票面额肯定会涨。因而，在特殊历史时期由于特殊用途发行巨额钞票完全有可能，我们在做学术研究时一定要小心谨慎、认真负责、严格求索，绝不能因为论证一个观点而发表不符事实的观点。
小说主人公“我”是旧金山一个矿业经纪人手下的办事员，深谙证券交易规则，因而才能运用自己的经济头脑帮助劳埃德。马克•吐温生于1815年，卒于1910年，证券交易所早已建立。最早的证券交易所是1613年设立的荷兰阿姆斯特丹交易所，伦敦证券交易所开业于17世纪，而纽约证券交易所的起源可以追溯到1792年5月17日，因而是完全写实的。
《笨拙》杂志创刊于1841年，是幽默讽刺周刊杂志，在1969年被布雷德伯里和埃文斯印刷公司收购之后步入黄金时期，风靡全英，刊登包括萨克雷、沃德豪斯、坦涅尔等著名漫画家讥讽政治、刻画生活的杰作。拥有诸如布朗宁、卡莱尔、菲茨杰拉德、朗费罗、勃朗特、维多利亚女王、艾伯特、爱默生、狄更斯、梅尔维尔的名流忠实读者，可见受欢迎的程度，因此就不难理解为何小说中，尽管《笨拙》杂志把“我”描绘成和一个伦敦塔的哨兵谈价钱的衣衫褴褛的家伙，仍然大大提升了“我”的地位，“我”仿佛得到了军功章一样欣喜若狂。
二、话语特色与主旨的传达
马克•吐温以幽默讽刺见长，少了一份刻薄，多了一份亲近，更易打动人心、赢得共鸣，《百万英镑》也不例外，生花妙语随处可见。“我”难以忍受衣服店服务员的鄙视，挑战性的递上百万钞票时，“他笑容可掬地拿了过去，那种笑是堆满了整个面孔的，其中包括折纹、皱纹和螺旋纹，与你向水中扔了一块砖的地方差不多，随后在他看了一下那张纸币时，这种笑就立刻僵在脸上了，死了似的，仿佛你所见到的维苏威火山边上那些小块平地上的水纹状的、到处都是蛆虫一样的大片的熔岩似的”。把服务员见钱眼开、眯着眼睛笑的动态比喻成波纹，而且是形态各异的波纹，可见笑容中的媚态，而僵住的笑容是冷却的熔岩、蛆虫遍地则表现出了作者对势利小人的鄙夷之情。其后，经理又奉承道：“让那些小客户们稍候一下吧，记好这位先生的地址。”这段话不仅把老板讨好富人的媚颜奴态刻画的入骨三分，“让那些小客户们稍候一下”还说明了虽然社会认可“人人平等”的理念，但在实际生活中人人都自觉地把人分成三六九等，媚上欺下，在自己被欺压、被蔑视的时候想要尊重与公平，但却对比自己卑微的人嗤之以鼻，这也说明了心理学中的著名结论“施虐者往往都曾被虐”，人的劣根性是难以更改的。
夸张也是作者鲜明的语言特色。波霞腼腆地“甚至头发也红了”、劳埃德得到“我”的帮助时“在一阵大喜中手舞足蹈，几乎会将家具都弄散架”都具有丰富的感染力。“我”在与公爵争夺首位时，“尽管吵得不可开交，问题一直得不到解决，接着他就不顾一切地用他的家世和祖先来显耀一下，我估计他最有力的依据是征服王，就用亚当来对付他，我声称自己的祖先是亚当，从我的姓就能够看出来，而他仅仅是个支系的”，双方拼命攀比家世与祖先，居然连亚当都搬了出来，可见交际应酬的无聊、市侩。
《百万英镑》中的间接塑造法对于人物性格的呈现起了极为重要的作用。小说中“我”与旧识劳埃德走了三英里，途中他始终在述说他的经历，我因为想念心上人什么也没听进去而他却毫不生气又原原本本讲述了一遍，侧面烘托了劳埃德的善良老实。通过描写波霞走过去坐在老先生怀里亲吻老先生惊得蒙在鼓里的“我”目瞪口呆表现出了波霞的天真顽皮。
了解经济、文化、社会背景知识有助于作品的理解，话语特色与主旨的传达有利于领略小说之妙，更多的妙处有待于读者自己体会。
作者单位：西南交通大学艺术与传播学院
篇二：说谎与百万英镑_2000字
“幸运儿”的百万英镑
2001年 9月 10日，英国。独立电视台红遍全球的益智节目《百万富翁》的录制现场，知名主持人克里斯 ·塔兰特正紧紧盯着一个看上去有些紧张的男子。整个演播室里一片寂静，几百名观众屏住了呼吸，全部的视线也都集中在了这名男子的身上。终于，主持人打破令人窒息的沉默：“英格拉姆先生，这是最后一题：1后面接 100个 0是多少？答对了你会带着 100万英镑离开，答错了你将失去已经得到的 50万英镑，两手空空走出这里。”名叫英格拉姆的男子十分犹豫，就像他之前答题时那样，在四个答案中反复念叨着。当他自言自语说了三遍其中一个答案 “googol”时，观众席上传来一声并不太明显的咳嗽声。几秒钟后，英格拉姆肯定地说：“我就选它了。”面对一个价值 100万英镑的选择的做出，台下的观众发出了惊呼声，这似乎让英格拉姆又有一些犹豫：“我再想想。”主持人塔兰特在调侃了从比赛开始就一直犹豫不决的英格拉姆之后，暗示他可以放弃这次选择，稳妥地拿走 50万英镑。但是最终英格拉姆还是做出了选择，选定 googol作为最后的答案。在主持人宣布这道题的答案之前，按照国际惯例在最关键时刻插入了广告时段。当台下的观众和台上的英格拉姆煎熬地等过了给广告预留的休息时间之后，聚光灯打到了台上，所有的人都屏气凝神等待一个百万富翁或者一个失去 50万英镑的倒霉蛋的诞生。这时主持人塔兰特拿出了一张 50万英镑的支票，戏谑地看看紧张的英格拉姆和台下的观众，突然撕掉了这张巨额支票：“这张支票已经不再属于你了！”正当英格拉姆和观众露出失望的神情时，塔兰特突然大声说：“因为你刚刚赢得了 100万英镑！”经历了如同坐过山车一般悲喜的英格拉姆，在观众的欢呼声中成为这个开播三年的当红节目中第三位百万英镑的得主。
随后的几天里，英格拉姆成了英国最热的话题。人们讨论着这个看上去忠厚老实的英国皇家工程兵少校每道题都答得异常的犹豫，和前两个智慧、机敏的大奖得主相比简直是云泥之别。他早早地就把求助机会用光，后面很多题看上去他完全没有把握，可就是全蒙对了。这样的人居然都能赢得百万英镑的大奖，真是撞了大运。很多没能到录制现场的人期待着节目正式播出，好看看这个全英国最幸运的人是怎么连蒙带猜拿下百万英镑的。可是到了 9月 18日节目播出的日子，等候在电视机前的观众居然没看到《百万富翁》。而在家还没兑换那张百万英镑支票的幸运的英格拉姆，等来的却是节目制作公司的经理打来的电话，告诉他支票已经被注销，他失去了这份大奖。出乎经理预料的是，英格拉姆的反应并不激烈。五天后，警察又敲开了英格拉姆的家门，逮捕了他和他的妻子，还有一个叫泰克文 ·维特克的大学讲师。他在英格拉姆比赛期间一直坐在第一排观战。
幸运的英格拉姆为什么会突然失去百万英镑的大奖，又惹来了警察呢？
他说谎了吗？
2003年 3月 5日，英国伦敦皇家法院。
两年前成为幸运宠儿的英格拉姆少校有些颓败地站在被告席上，头戴白色假发的法官正在宣布对他的指控 ——作弊赢取百万英镑奖金。原来在英格拉姆赢得大奖之后没几天，就有人打电话到《百万富翁》节目制作公司，举报这个全英国最幸运的家伙是通过作弊手段赢得大奖的。节目制作公司调取了英格拉姆参赛的录像，经过反复查看后终于发现了问题所在。英格拉姆每次回答问题，几乎都要将四个答案轮流念一遍。当他念到正确的答案时，现场似乎都会有一声咳嗽出现，咳嗽的人是坐在观众席第一排的一位五十多岁的大学讲师泰克文 ·维特克。节目制作公司以此认定英格拉姆是在和泰克文 ·维特克一起作弊，取消了英格拉姆的获奖资格并将他告上法庭。
在法庭上，节目制作公司展示了证据：在英格拉姆比赛过程中，现场总共出现过 192次咳嗽，其中 19次声音最大的咳嗽都来自泰克文 ·维特克，并且都是在英格拉姆念到正确答案的时候。面对指控，泰克文·维特克辩称自己患有花粉症和过敏性鼻炎，对灰尘很敏感，而法庭请来的呼吸道专家也证实节目录制现场的环境很容易诱发泰克文 ·维特克咳嗽。仅靠每次答题时的咳嗽警方很难让法院相信泰克文 ·维特克是在有意提示英格拉姆，审讯进入了僵持。但是英格拉姆的一句证词给了警方一个突破口。他曾经声称自己根本不认识这位叫做泰克文 ·维特克的大学讲师，但是警方却发现了比赛前英格拉姆的妻子和泰克文·维特克的多次电话通话记录。
面对如此铁证，三个人依然咬紧牙关拒不认罪。最后法院宣判英格拉姆和妻子戴安娜、泰克文 ·维特克诈骗罪成立，判缓刑，英格拉姆夫妇 3万英镑罚金和支付 1万英镑的诉讼费，泰克文 ·维特克 1万英镑罚金和支付 7500英镑的诉讼费。
这个事件中最大的赢家应该是《百万富翁》的节目制作公司。虽然为这场诉讼支付了高达 100万英镑的诉讼费，但是他们收回了英格拉姆的百万英镑奖金，为这次事件拍摄的纪录片给公司带来了超过百万英镑的收入，又借此将节目炒得更红。法院判决之后，曾经的幸运宠儿英格拉姆的生活一路跌落谷底，先是被军队开除，一年多后又宣布破产。一个原本忠厚老实的军官，为了巨额奖金的诱惑说了一个大谎话，毁掉了自己的生活。
篇三：百万英镑 说课稿_4100字
Lesson Plan: Unit 3-The Million Pound Bank Note
Good morning/afternoon everyone! I am Angel. The lesson plan that I am going to present today is from Module 3, the first lesson of Unit 3, The Million Pound Bank Note. My presentation contains 6 six parts.
The Part 1 is Analyzing Teaching Materials.
This unit is a play adapted from a short story by the famous American author . There are 2 scenes together with many comprehension and language exercises in this unit. Although there are not many difficult words, this unit introduces lots of useful expressions, like making requests in a formal way and how to order food in a restaurant. Also, new grammar items like noun clauses as the object and noun clauses as the predicative are part of the mission. Therefore, it’s about to take 6 periods to finish all the content. My lesson today will cover the first period, which focuses on the Reading part: Act 1, Scene 3.
For the first lesson, my Teaching Aims are:
Knowledge Aims:Ss will learn something about Mark Twain and some features of a play
Ss will understand the general ideas of the Scene 3 and be familiar with the
main characters
Ability Aims:Ss will know some useful new words and expressions
Ss will discover some new sentence structures, which will be elaborated on in the
following lessons
Emotional Aims:Ss can sense the humor in the play
Arouse Ss’ interests to the development of the story
Part 3 Teaching Methods
I will adopt the task-based language teaching for the whole unit, making best uses of the context in the play to have Ss acquire the language through meaningful and purposeful tasks, like retelling the story in their own words and role-play. As there are PowerPoint and video clips to be show, I will need the overhead projector as my teaching aid.
Part 4 Teaching Key Points
Vocabulary:
Part 5 Teaching Procedure
Step1:Warm-up (5 minutes)
In order to draw Ss’ attention to today’s topic, I will first ask them to close the textbook and show
them a quotation on blackboard:
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
Then raise questions like: Have you ever heard of this quotation? Do you know who wrote this?? What does it mean??
After some responses, I will tell them to open the book on p17 read the warming-up part.
Step2: Pre-reading (5 minutes)
Have Ss discuss the 2 questions in the pre-reading part: What would you if you are given a large sum of money? What do you know about the story or the film the million pound bank note? Appoint some of them to speak out their ideas.
Step3: Appreciate the video clip (10 minutes) Before watching the video, I will use the PowerPoint to show Ss that, unlike novels or short
--First, plays are divided into acts and scenes.
--Second, there are stage directions(舞台指示) which require the reader to pause and visualize the set up.
--Third, readers must pay close attention to the dialogue in order to understand the characters and action.
Step4: Reading (10 minutes)
After watching the video, I will give Ss 3 minutes to read the script and underline unfamiliar words and expressions.
While they are reading, I will list all the new words and expression on the blackboard.
Before instruction, ask Ss if they can guess the meaning from the context.
Then, raise 3 major questions: How many characters are there? Who are they? What happened? I will give them 2 minutes to read again and then appoint some Ss to answer.
Step 5: Practice (10 minutes)
Task 1: Retell the story——encourage Ss to summarize the story and retell it in their own words. Task 2: Role play activities——divide the class into groups of 4 to practice the dialogues.
Part 6 Review & Homework
Use PowerPoint to recap the all the key points in this lesson.
To consolidate what have been achieved in the lesson and prepare for the next lesson, I will assign the following homework:
1. Finish the comprehending exercise 1 and 2. Besides
2. Use the new words and expressions to make up sentences.
3.Read the script carefully and use highlighter to mark all possible new sentences structure.
That will be my today’s lesson plan, thank you !
篇四：《百万英镑》_1300字
理财关键词：马太效应
影片信息
英文名：The Million Pound Note
地区：英国
类型：喜剧
导演：罗纳德·尼姆
主演：格里高利·派克
上映时间：1953年
剧情梗概
《百万英镑》是根据美国著名作家马克·吐温同名小说改编的电影。两个英国富翁兄弟用一张面值百万英镑的现钞打赌，看这张钞票究竟会给人带来无尽财富还是只是一张一文不值的小纸片。恰巧刚到英国、穷困潦倒的美国人亨利·亚当斯进入了富豪兄弟的视野，他们把一张无法兑现的百万大钞借给亨利，看他在一个月内如何收场。
没想到这段时间内，人们竟拼命拉拢讨好这位突然暴富的罕见富翁，从免费吃饭、买衣服，到免费住宿，亨利的社会地位不断提高。一个月后，亨利不但没有饿死或被捕，反而通过成功的资本运作，赚了20万英镑，成为真正的富翁，还抱得美人归。电影以略带夸张和讽刺的手法，揭露了20世纪初弥漫在资本主义世界的拜金主义思潮。
经典台词
店主：“先生，您什么时候想来就来，喜欢什么就拿什么，您能光顾是本店最大的荣幸，至于账单，您就甭管了。”
理财解码
马克·吐温或许没想到，他创作的这个本意在鞭挞拜金主义的故事，无意中也揭示了企业经营和投资理财的经典法则：马太效应。
所谓“马太效应”，来自《新约·马太福音》：“凡有的，还要加给他叫他多余；没有的，连他所有的也要夺走。”经济学上，马太效应常被用来解释穷者愈穷、富者愈富的两极分化现象。但从投资学看，“马太效应”反映了资本的复利效应和规模效应，即财富资源会自动向资本更多、投资能力更强的企业和个人倾斜。《圣经》这段话的本意也是要把更多的财富给那些更能赚钱的人，而对缺乏赚钱意识或能力的人，要把他手里的钱收回来，实现资本运作效率最大化。
影片中，亚当斯最初只是把这张百万大钞作为自己生活消费赊账的信用保证，就像提供大量资产证明的高净值客户能获得额度极高的信用卡一样，但迟早要露馅。所以他开始用自己形成的声望和信誉，先从经营陷入困境的朋友手中接手矿山招股生意赚到第一桶金，再凭借自己的股票经营知识，引导股市走向，赚取真金白银。通过“借力打力”，亚当斯成功实现了“财力证明—信用价值—真实财富”的资本运作。
实战运用
在实际理财过程中，亚当斯的奇遇能带来正反两方面启示。
一方面，许多人总抱怨投资缺乏第一桶金。但第一桶金从来不会从天而降，需要自己开动脑筋，努力争取，通过各种信贷手段，调动各方资源，实现资产盘活，借力打力，这绝对是一门技术活。否则即使继承了丰厚的第一桶金，要是没有将资金转化为资本的勇气、意识和能力，无法充分利用和整合资源，把资本投在最关键的地方，那就算有再多的原始资金也依然只会坐吃山空。
另一方面，亚当斯近乎“空手套白狼”的发迹之路也给投资者敲响了警钟。在当今社会，还是有不少人会像电影中的众多店主那样，看到手握百万巨钞的亚当斯会下意识觉得自己碰上财神爷，从而放松了警惕，即使对方大幅透支赊账也不怕。历史上出现过的各种庞氏骗局，之所以能一再取得投资者的信任，就是因为集资人故意给自己（或公司）打造成一种高端、成功、不差钱的投资精英形象，开名车，带名表，住豪宅，出手阔绰，排场宏大，让投资者误以为是靠谱的老板，靠谱的公司。殊不知依靠“拆东墙补西墙”的手法终将导致资金链断裂。无论是前纳斯达克主席麦道夫，还是东阳的吴英，抑或是前不久闹得沸沸扬扬的泛鑫跑路美女老板陈怡，本质上玩的都是这出把戏。
篇五：百万英镑_21900字
The Million Pound Note
When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker's clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect.
My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to put it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. One day I ventured too far, and was carried out to sea. Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I was picked up by a small brig which was bound for London. It was a long and stormy voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor. When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar in my pocket. This money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours. During the next twenty-four I went without food and shelter.
About ten o'clock on the following morning, seedy and hungry, I was dragging myself along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed by a nurse-maid, tossed a luscious big pear—minus one bite—into the gutter. I stopped, of course, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. My mouth watered for it, my stomach craved it, my whole being begged for it. But every time I
made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked indifferent, and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all. This same thing kept happening and happening, and I couldn't get the pear. I was just getting desperate enough to brave all the shame, and to seize it, when a window behind me was raised, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying:
I was admitted by a gorgeous flunkey, and shown into a
sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. They sent away the servant, and made me sit down. They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the
presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.
Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
You will remember that the Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds each, to be used for a special purpose connected with some public transaction with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one of these had been used and canceled; the other still lay in the vaults of the Bank. Well, the
brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wondering what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned adrift in London without a friend, and with no money but that million-pound bank-note, and no way to account for his being in possession of it. Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn't. Brother A said he couldn't offer it at a bank or anywhere else, because he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on disputing till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days, anyway, on that million, and keep out of jail, too. Brother A took him up. Brother B went down to the Bank and bought that note. Just like an Englishman, you see; pluck to the backbone. Then he dictated a letter, which one of his clerks wrote out in a beautiful round hand, and then the two brothers sat at the window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to.
I would have picked up the pear now and eaten it before all the world, but it was gone; so I had lost that by this unlucky business,
and the thought of it did not soften my feeling towards those men. As soon as I was out of sight of that house I opened my envelope, and saw that it contained money! My opinion of those people changed, I can tell you! I lost not a moment, but shoved note and money into my vest pocket, and broke for the nearest cheap eating house. Well, how I did eat! When at last I couldn't hold any more, I took out my money and unfolded it, took one glimpse and nearly fainted. Five millions of dollars! Why, it made my head swim.
I must have sat there stunned and blinking at the note as much as a minute before I came rightly to myself again. The first thing I noticed, then, was the landlord. His eye was on the note, and he was petrified. He was worshiping, with all his body and soul, but he looked as if he couldn't stir hand or foot. I took my cue in a moment, and did the only rational thing there was to do. I reached the note towards him, and said, carelessly:
Then he was restored to his normal condition, and made a thousand apologies for not being able to break the bill, and I couldn't get him to touch it. He wanted to look at it, and keep on looking at it; he couldn't seem to get enough of it to quench the thirst of his eye, but he shrank from touching it as if it had been
something too sacred for poor common clay to handle. I said:
But he said that wasn't any matter; he was quite willing to let the trifle stand over till another time. I said I might not be in his neighborhood again for a good while; but he said it was of no
consequence, he could wait, and, moreover, I could have anything I wanted, any time I chose, and let the account run as long as I pleased. He said he hoped he wasn't afraid to trust as rich a
gentleman as I was, merely because I was of a merry disposition, and chose to play larks on the public in the matter of dress. By this time another customer was entering, and the landlord hinted to me to put the monster out of sight; then he bowed me all the way to the door, and I started straight for that house and those brothers, to correct the mistake which had been made before the police should hunt me up, and help me do it. I was pretty nervous; in fact, pretty badly frightened, though, of course, I was no way in fault; but I
knew men well enough to know that when they find they've given a tramp a million-pound bill when they thought it was a one-pounder, they are in a frantic rage against him instead of quarreling with their own near-sightedness, as they ought. As I approached the house my excitement began to abate, for all was quiet there, which made
me feel pretty sure the blunder was not discovered yet. I rang. The same servant appeared. I asked for those gentlemen.
Maybe those men mean me well, maybe they mean me ill; no way to decide that—let it go. They've got a game, or a scheme, or an experiment, of some kind on hand; no way to determine what it is—let it go. There's a bet on me; no way to find out what it is—let it go. That disposes of the indeterminable quantities; the remainder of the matter is tangible, solid, and may be classed and labeled with certainty. If I ask the Bank of England to place this bill to the credit of the man it belongs to, they'll do it, for they know him, although I don't; but they will ask me how I came in possession of it, and if I
tell the truth, they'll put me in the asylum, naturally, and a lie will land me in jail. The same result would follow if I tried to bank the bill anywhere or to borrow money on it. I have got to carry this immense burden around until those men come back, whether I want to or not. It is useless to me, as useless as a handful of ashes, and yet I must take care of it, and watch over it, while I beg my
living. I couldn't give it away, if I should try, for neither honest citizen nor highwayman would accept it or meddle with it for anything. Those brothers are safe. Even if I lose their bill, or burn it, they are still safe, because they can stop payment, and the Bank will make them whole; but meantime I've got to do a month's suffering without wages or profit—unless I help win that bet, whatever it may be, and get that situation that I am promised. I should like to get that; men of their sort have situations in their gift that are worth having.
I got to thinking a good deal about that situation. My hopes began to rise high. Without doubt the salary would be large. It
would begin in a month; after that I should be all right. Pretty soon I was feeling first- rate. By this time I was tramping the streets again. The sight of a tailor-shop gave me a sharp longing to shed my rags, and to clothe myself decently once more. Could I afford it? No; I had nothing in the world but a million pounds. So I forced myself to
go on by. But soon I was drifting back again. The temptation
persecuted me cruelly. I must have passed that shop back and forth six times during that manful struggle. At last I gave in; I had to. I asked if they had a misfit suit that had been thrown on their hands. The fellow I spoke to nodded his head towards another fellow, and gave me no answer. I went to the indicated fellow, and he indicated another fellow with his head, and no words. I went to him, and he said:
I waited till he was done with what he was at, then he took me into a back room, and overhauled a pile of rejected suits, and
selected the rattiest one for me. I put it on. It didn't fit, and wasn't in any way attractive, but it was new, and I was anxious to have it; so I didn't find any fault, but said, with some diffidence:
I was nettled, and said:
clothes he wears. I am quite able to pay for this suit; I simply didn't wish to put you to the trouble of changing a large note.
The proprietor took a look, gave a low, eloquent whistle, then made a dive for the pile of rejected clothing, and began to snatch it this way and that, talking all the time excitedly, and as if to himself:
millionaire from a tramp, and never could. Ah, here's the thing I am after. Please get those things off, sir, and throw them in the fire. Do me the favor to put on this shirt and this suit; it's just the thing, the very thing—plain, rich, modest, and just ducally nobby; made to order for a foreign prince—you may know him, sir, his Serene
Highness the Hospodar of Halifax; had to leave it with us and take a mourning-suit because his mother was going to die— which she didn't. But that's all right; we can't always have things the way
we—that is, the way they—there! trousers all right, they fit you to a charm, sir; now the waistcoat; aha, right again! now the coat—lord! Look at that, now! Perfect—the whole thing! I never saw such a triumph in all my experience.
I expressed my satisfaction.
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Eternally—that's the word, sir. Tod, rush these things through, and send them to the gentleman's address without any waste of time. Let the minor customers wait. Set down the gentleman's address and—
Well, don't you see what was bound to happen? I drifted naturally into buying whatever I wanted, and asking for change. Within a week I was sumptuously equipped with all needful
comforts and luxuries, and was housed in an expensive private hotel in Hanover Square. I took my dinners there, but for breakfast I stuck by Harris's humble feeding house, where I had got my first meal on my million-pound bill. I was the making of Harris. The fact had gone all abroad that the foreign crank who carried
million-pound bills in his vest pocket was the patron saint of the place. That was enough. From being a poor, struggling, little hand-to-mouth enterprise, it had become celebrated, and
overcrowded with customers. Harris was so grateful that he forced loans upon me, and would not be denied; and so, pauper as I was, I had money to spend, and was living like the rich and the great. I judged that there was going to be a crash by and by, but I was in now and must swim across or drown. You see there was just that element of impending disaster to give a serious side, a sober side, yes, a tragic side, to a state of things which would otherwise have been purely ridiculous. In the night, in the dark, the tragedy part was always to the front, and always warning, always threatening; and so I moaned and tossed, and sleep was hard to find. But in the cheerful daylight the tragedy element faded out and disappeared, and I walked on air, and was happy to giddiness, to intoxication, you may say.
You know, I even kept my old suit of rags, and every now and then
appeared in them, so as to have the old pleasure of buying trifles, and being insulted, and then shooting the scoffer dead with the million- pound bill. But I couldn't keep that up. The illustrated
papers made the outfit so familiar that when I went out in it I was at once recognized and followed by a crowd, and if I attempted a
purchase the man would offer me his whole shop on credit before I could pull my note on him.
About the tenth day of my fame I went to fulfil my duty to my flag by paying my respects to the American minister. He received me with the enthusiasm proper in my case, upbraided me for being so tardy in my duty, and said that there was only one way to get his forgiveness, and that was to take the seat at his dinner-party that night made vacant by the illness of one of his guests. I said I would, and we got to talking. It turned out that he and my father had been schoolmates in boyhood, Yale students together later, and always warm friends up to my father's death. So then he required me to put in at his house all the odd time I might have to spare, and I was very willing, of course.
In fact, I was more than willing; I was glad. When the crash should come, he might somehow be able to save me from total destruction; I didn't know how, but he might think of a way, maybe. I
couldn't venture to unbosom myself to him at this late date, a thing which I would have been quick to do in the beginning of this awful career of mine in London. No, I couldn't venture it now; I was in too deep; that is, too deep for me to be risking revelations to so new a friend, though not clear beyond my depth, as I looked at it. Because, you see, with all my borrowing, I was carefully keeping within my means—I mean within my salary. Of course, I couldn't know what my salary was going to be, but I had a good enough basis for an estimate in the fact, that if I won the bet I was to have choice of any situation in that rich old gentleman's gift provided I was
competent—and I should certainly prove competent; I hadn't any doubt about that. And as to the bet, I wasn't worrying about that; I had always been lucky. Now my estimate of the salary was six hundred to a thousand a year; say, six hundred for the first year, and so on up year by year, till I struck the upper figure by proved merit. At present I was only in debt for my first year's salary.
Everybody had been trying to lend me money, but I had fought off the most of them on one pretext or another; so this indebtedness represented only
￡300 borrowed money, the other ￡300 represented my keep and my purchases. I believed my second year's salary would carry me through the rest of the month if I went on being cautious and
economical, and I intended to look sharply out for that. My month ended, my employer back from his journey, I should be all right once more, for I should at once divide the two years' salary among my creditors by assignment, and get right down to my work. It was a lovely dinner-party of fourteen. The Duke and Duchess of Shoreditch, and their daughter the Lady
Anne-Grace-Eleanor-Celeste-and-so-forth-and-so-forth-de-Bohun, the Earl and Countess of Newgate, Viscount Cheapside, Lord and Lady Blatherskite, some untitled people of both sexes, the minister and his wife and daughter, and his daughter's visiting friend, an English girl of twenty-two, named Portia Langham, whom I fell in love with in two minutes, and she with me—I could see it without glasses. There was still another guest, an American—but I am a little ahead of my story. While the people were still in the
drawing-room, whetting up for dinner, and coldly inspecting the late comers, the servant announced:
person's curiosity. Make it a week.
His cheerfulness vanished like a breath, and he said with a sigh:
He gripped my hand hard, and braced up, and was all right and lively after that for the dinner—which didn't come off. No; the usual thing happened, the thing that is always happening under that
vicious and aggravating English system—the matter of precedence couldn't be settled, and so there was no dinner. Englishmen always
eat dinner before they go out to dinner, because they know the risks they are running; but nobody ever warns the stranger, and so he walks placidly into trap. Of course, nobody was hurt this time, because we had all been to dinner, none of us being novices
excepting Hastings, and he having been informed by the minister at the time that he invited him that in deference to the English custom he had not provided any dinner. Everybody took a lady and
processioned down to the dining-room, because it is usual to go through the motions; but there the dispute began. The Duke of Shoreditch wanted to take precedence, and sit at the head of the table, holding that he outranked a minister who represented merely a nation and not a monarch; but I stood for my rights, and refused to yield. In the gossip column I ranked all dukes not royal, and said so, and claimed precedence of this one. It couldn't be settled, of course, struggle as we might and did, he finally (and injudiciously) trying to play birth and antiquity, and I
two persons of highest rank chuck up a shilling, the one that wins has first go at his strawberry, and the loser gets the shilling. The next two chuck up, then the next two, and so on. After refreshment, tables were brought, and we all played cribbage, sixpence a game. The English never play any game for amusement. If they can't make something or lose something—they don't care which—they won't play.
We had a lovely time; certainly two of us had, Miss Langham and I. I was so bewitched with her that I couldn't count my hands if they went above a double sequence; and when I struck home I never discovered it, and started up the outside row again, and would have lost the game every time, only the girl did the same, she being in just my condition, you see; and consequently neither of us ever got out, or cared to wonder why we didn't; we only just knew we were happy, and didn't wish to know anything else, and didn't want to be interrupted. And I told her—I did, indeed—told her I loved her; and she—well, she blushed till her hair turned red, but she liked it; she said she did. Oh, there was never such an evening! Every time I pegged I put on a postscript; every time she pegged she acknowledged receipt of it, counting the hands the same. Why, I couldn't even say
fifteen six, and a pair are eight, and eight are sixteen—do you think so?
She shrank a little, but said:
Sho! You should have seen the rich blood mount, and her happy eyes shine!
still I'll go with you. Maybe it will teach you not to expect other people to look with your eyes.
All the way home I was in the clouds, Hastings talking, I not hearing a word. When he and I entered my parlor, he brought me to myself with his fervent appreciations of my manifold comforts and luxuries.
Plague take it! This language gave me the cold shudders. It scared me broad awake, and made me comprehend that I was standing on a halfinch crust, with a crater underneath. I didn't know I had been dreaming —that is, I hadn't been allowing myself to know it for a while back; but now—oh, dear! Deep in debt, not a cent in the world, a lovely girl's happiness or woe in my hands, and
nothing in front of me but a salary which might never—oh, would never—materialize! Oh, oh, oh! I am ruined past hope! Nothing can save me!
I was in a kind of agony. I was right on the point of coming out with the words,
self-possessed way:
Do you know, he would have danced the furniture to
kindling-wood in his insane joy, and broken everything on the place, if I hadn't tripped him up and tied him.
Then he lay there, perfectly happy, saying:
In less than twenty-four hours London was abuzz! I hadn't anything to do, day after day, but sit at home, and say to all comers:
Meantime I spent all my evenings at the minister's with Portia. I didn't say a word to her about the mine; I saved it for a surprise. We talked salary; never anything but salary and love; sometimes love, sometimes salary, sometimes love and salary together. And my! The interest the minister's wife and daughter took in our little affair, and the endless ingenuities they invented to save us from interruption, and to keep the minister in the dark and
unsuspicious—well, it was just lovely of them!
When the month was up at last, I had a million dollars to my
credit in the London and County Bank, and Hastings was fixed in the same way. Dressed at my level best, I drove by the house in Portland Place, judged by the look of things that my birds were home again, went on towards the minister's and got my precious, and we started back, talking salary with all our might. She was so excited and anxious that it made her just intolerably beautiful. I said:
So, as it turned out, I had to keep bolstering up her courage all the way. She kept pleading with me, and saying:
We were ushered in by that same servant, and there they were, the two old gentlemen. Of course, they were surprised to see that wonderful creature with me, but I said:
She put up an arch pout, and said:
She walked to my man, got up in his lap, put her arm round his neck, and kissed him right on the mouth. Then the two old gentlemen shouted with laughter, but I was dumfounded, just petrified, as you may say. Portia said:
Of course, I spoke right up now, without any fooling, and went straight to the point.
to describe it. And when London got the whole history, a day or two later, of my month's adventures with that bank-note, and how they ended, did London talk, and have a good time? Yes.
篇六：百万英镑_2600字 This play was made into a film.
Task 2: Getting to know the story.
Two rich gentlemen in London made a bet on what would happen to a person if he was given a million pound bank-note. An American young man who sailed too far was carried out to sea, but was saved by a British ship for London . So he was now in London , tired,hungry and penniless……
Try to gain as much information as possible from the film through watching and train reading and listening skills.
Characters （人物）：
Henry Adams :
a lost American businessman
in London
“Roderick” and “Oliver” :
two brothers and rich Englishmen
Task 2. Skimming
Reading strategy: Go through the play for the gist which is the general idea of the play.Don’t worry about the language.
Put the following events in correct order.
5. Henry wandered in London streets.
About a month ago Henry Adams was 1. sailing out of the bay.
3. The next morning he was spotted by a ship. 2. Towards nightfall he found himself carried
out to sea by a strong wind.
working as an unpaid hand.
4. On the ship he earned his passage by
About a month ago
Towards nightfall The next morning
Henry was sailing out of the bay. _____
carried Henry was ______ out to sea by a strong wind. spotted Henry was ________by a ship.
Lastly
London Henry arrived in __________ by working as an unpaid hand.
Now
lost Henry was______ in London and wandering in the street
Just at that time
called Roderick _______ him and asked him to step in;
To Henry’s surprise
letter Roderick gave Henry a _________ letter with money in it. with money in it.
Retell the story
American Henry was an_________. One day he had an bay accident in a_____. Luckily he was survived by a London ship for_______. He arrived in London by earning lost his passage without pay. He was _____in the street
incredible rags in_____. To his surprise an ________ thing happened. Two rich brothers gave him a million
pound bank-note because they had made a_____. bet
Talking Think about what kind of person Henry was?
It is my first trip here.
Well, to be honest, I have none. (no money)
Well, I can’t say that I have any plans.
I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand. Could you offer me some kind of work here? I don’t want your charity, I just want an honest job.
Well, it may seem luck to you but not to me. If this is your idea of some kind of joke, I don’t think it’s very funny. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I think I’ll be on my way.
Task 2. Acting
Act the play out.
Task 3. Discussion
Have a discussion with the SS.
Suppose you get a large amount of money by buying lottery tickets (彩票) and become a millionaire (百万富翁). What will you do with the money?
Buy a house
Travel around the world
篇七：百万英镑_2700字 ?
Who got the million pound bank note?
Mark Twain ?
If not,who is Mark Twain ?And who got it?
Task 1. Lisening Background knowledge about Mark Twain and his play .
What do you know about Mark Twain?
Mark Twain 1835-1910
Group work :
According to the lisening text ,
Work in pairs to finish the chart
about Mark Twain.
Fill in the chart
Real name of Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Date of Birth
1835
Meaning of his pen name
The water is two fathoms deep
Birthplace
Florida
Place where he grew up
In Hannibal, Missouri ,along the Mississippi River.
Names of three of his The Adventures of Tom Sawyer famous stories The Adventures of Huckleberry Life On The Mississippi
Supplyment
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835 — 1910
American short story writer, Humorist, novelist American best known literary giant
Can you list three of his famous stories?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
《汤姆· 索亚历险记》
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 《哈克贝利· 弗恩历险记》
Task 2. Talking
Have a discussion with the SS.
Suppose you get a large amount of money by buying lottery tickets and become a millionaire。
(1)a large amount of: 相当于a large quantity of; a great deal of e.g. They bought a large amount of furniture before they moved into their new house (2)Lottery ticket:彩票 (3)Millionaire → million +aire[名词后缀]
What will you do with the money?
Buy a house
Travel around the world
Task 3. Reading
In this part,I will give you some reading strategies and skills to improve your reading ability.
Have a good time!
Skimming
Try to gain as much information as possible from the story through reading and train reading skills.
Getting to know the story.
Two rich gentlemen in London made a bet on what would happen to a person if he was given a million pound bank-note. An American young man who sailed too far was carried out to sea, but was saved by a British ship for London . So he was now in London , tired,hungry and penniless……
Scanning
Reading strategy: Go through the play for specific information.Don’t read sentence by sentence.
Characters （人物）：
Henry Adams :
a lost American businessman
in London
“Roderick” and “Oliver” :
two brothers and rich Englishmen
About a month ago
Towards nightfall The next morning
Henry was sailing out of the bay. _____
carried Henry was ______ out to sea by a strong wind. spotted Henry was ________by a ship.
Lastly
London Henry arrived in __________ by working as an unpaid hand.
Now
lost Henry was______ in London and wandering in the street
Just at that time
called Roderick _______ him and asked him to step in; Roderickgave Henry a _________ letter Roderick gave Henry a letter _________ in it. money in it. with with money
To Henry’s surprise
Task 4. Acting
Act the Play out !
Homework
Task 5:Writing Retell the play with your own words.
篇八：百万英镑_1300字
Unit 3 The million pound bank note
Using language
Step1 Retell the story(act1 scene3) according to the following
words
Summer, 1903, Henry Adams, rescued, British ship,
London, without money, lost, street, two rich brothers, made a bet,
A letter, open, two o’ clock
Step2 Listening and scanning
1,How many characters are there in this scene? Who are they?
2,when and where did the story happen?
3,What happen in scene 4? use one sentence.
Step3 Skimming
(1) Choose the best words to describe the restaurant owner’s
attitudes towards Henry.
① sympathetic (同情的) ② flattering (奉承的)
③ unfriendly ④ respectful (恭敬的)
a. When asking Henry to pay the bill, he is _______.
b. When he finds Henry is a “millionaire”, he is ______.
(2) Fill in the blanks.
(3) The great change of their attitude(use two words)
( )---------------()
Step4 Discussion
Is money everything?Why?
Money can buy a house, but not a home.
Money can buy a bed, but not sleep.
Money can buy a clock, but not time.
Money can buy a book, but not knowledge.
Money can buy you a position, but not respect.
Money can buy you medicine, but not health.
Money can buy a friend, but not love.
Money can buy you blood, but not life.
Step 5 what can we learn from this story?
1. We (should or shouldn’t) judge people by appearance.
2.Money is (nothing or everything) in the capitalist (资本主义的)society.
篇九：百万英镑_2800字 Unit 3
The Million Pound Bank-Note
by Mark Twain
Warming up
Mark Twain
▲a great American writer
▲
a famous speaker
liked to tell funny stories
▲
liked to play jokes on his friends
▲
Fill in the basic information about Mark Twain:
Real name
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
The water is 2 fathoms deep.(=12feet) Nov. 30th, 1935 Florida Hannibal, Missouri (along the
Mississippi River)
Pen name meaning
Birth date Birth place Grew up places Famous stories
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
How many people are there in the pictures? Who are they? What are they doing?
Listen to the tape and answer the questions.
1.How many characters are there in the scene? Who are they? 2. Who is the main character? When and where did the story happen? 3. What happened in Scene 3?
ACT
1
SCENE
The story began
3
A month ago
sailing out of the bay. Henry was ______
Henry found himself _______ carried out to Towards nightfall sea by a strong wind. spotted by a ship. The next morning Henry was ________ Henry arrived in ________ London by Lastly working on the ship unpaid.
Now Just at that time To Henry’s surprise
lost in London and Henry was _______ wandering in the street. called him and asked Roderick _______ him to step in. Roderick gave Henry a letter _____ with money in it.
detailed reading
1. Where does Henry Adams come from? Does he know much about London?
2. What did he do in America?
3. Why did he land in Britain? 4. When can Henry open the letter?
In pairs describe how Henry’s feelings change during the conversation.
What he says or does How he feels Before he enters Wandering round Miserable, unhappy, the brothers’ London anxious
house When he introduces himself
Behaves politely and answers questions fully
Curious why he has been asked to go into the house
When the Admits his problems brothers ask him and asks for work; about his plan When he tells them how he reached London by ship
Hopeful that he might find a solution explains his situation to his troubles Blames himself for Grateful that he was his carelessness; rescued; aware of remembers how his hunger hungry he was when he sees the food on the table
In pairs describe how Henry’s feelings change during the conversation.
When they seem happy that he has no money When they give him the envelope When they tell him there is money in it Before he leaves the house
What he says or does Replies angrily
How he feels Angry, irritated
Wants to open the envelope straightaway Explains he wants a job not charity Agrees not to open the letter till 2 p.m.
Irritated that he cannot open the envelope at once Unhappy to be given money rather than working for it Interested and curious
character analysis
1.What do you think of Henry? 2.What kind of persons do you think Oliver and Roderick are?
Prediction
Give a possible development to the story.
1.What do you think will happen to Henry? 2.Will the bank-note help him or get him into trouble?
篇十：《百万英镑》_4400字
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◆文本简析
本文是人教版小学语文五年级下册第七组课文中的最后一篇，是略读课文。本文节选自美国著名作家马克吐温的短篇小说《百万英镑》。课文主要讲了“我”到裁缝铺买衣服时，先遭到冷遇，而后由于拿出了一张百万英镑的大钞，又倍受关照的故事。小说淋漓尽致地刻画了小市民以钱取人、见钱眼开的丑态。
编排本文的用意有三：一是让学生通过对作品的阅读，把握托德、老板的性格特点。二是了解作者抓住人物语言、神态刻画人物形象的方法。三是激发学生阅读外国名著的兴趣。一、二两个方面是本文教学的重点。
◆教学目标
1．借助拼音，读准生字新词，了解、概括文本主要内容。
2．凭借自主阅读，了解托德和老板“尖酸刻薄、见钱眼开、惟利是图”的人物品质。
3、了解作者抓人物神态和语言刻画人物特点的方法，初步感受作者“辛辣、夸张”的笔触。
◆过程实录
一、开门见山，巧设悬疑
师：今天我们一起来学习一篇很有意思的马克吐温写的文章，题目是《金钱的魔力》。
师：一说到金钱的魔力，大家一定会想起一句七个字的俗语。（生：有钱能使鬼推磨）（师生共同书写该俗语，师故意将“鬼”字写得特别大）师：你们见过鬼吗？（生：没有。）
师：我也没有，因为这世界上根本没有鬼。那么，这句话中的“鬼”肯定指人，请问指的是那类人？（生：指的是见钱眼开、唯利是图、虚情假意的人。）
师：说得不错。在座的各位都有各自的爹妈，但是这些人却拥有共同的爹妈，一个字，那就是——（生：钱。）
二、初读课文，整体感知
师：大家都预习过课文了，下面就请大家快速浏览课文，琢磨琢磨，把课文中的“鬼”抓出来，并想想课文写了一件什么事情。（学生自主探究）
师：课文中有几个鬼？（生异口同声：两个。）
师：哪两个？
生：托德和老板。（师板书）
师：课文中除了这两个鬼之外，还有一个人，是——
生：是课文中的“我”。
师：这个“我”是谁？（生：马克吐温。）
师：不对，这个“我”不是作者，而是小说中的一个人物。所以，聪明的你们一定知道，在写“我”这个字的时候，一定要加上——（生：引号）
师：第一个人物完成得不错。谁能概括地说说课文的主要内容？
生：“我”去服装店买衣服，因衣衫褴褛而遭到托德的冷嘲热讽，后来，我
拿出百万英镑，受到了老板的热情接待。
师：概括得不错！按照人物的出场顺序来概括，是一种好办法，比较容易把主要内容概括清楚。
三、比较阅读，品悟托德
师：你们肯定说过这么一句话——绝不冤枉一个好人，也绝不放过一个坏人。你们都说托德和老板是鬼，能从课文中找到证据吗？（生异口同声：能！）这是篇略读课文，需要同学们自己去读读，自己去悟悟，自己去发现。鬼啊，一般都有鬼相和鬼品，请大家首先关注描写托德的相关内容，把最能体现托德“鬼相”的语句划下来，并试着用词语概括托德的“鬼品”。
生（自主探究，自读自悟，书写旁注；3分钟）
【全班交流】
句子一：我等候着，一直等到他把手头的事办完，他才领着我到后面的一个房间去，取出一堆人家不肯要的衣服，选了一件最蹩脚的给我。（以貌取人） （师：什么是“蹩脚”？要是去服装店买衣服的是我，你们认为托德会把怎么样的衣服给我？为什么？因此，托德的第一个鬼品是——以貌取人；板书）
句子二：那个家伙摆出一副非常刻薄的嘴脸，说道：“啊，是么？哼，当然我也料到了你没有带零钱。我看像你这样的阔人是只会带大票子的。（尖酸刻薄）（师：你们是怎么体会到“刻薄”的？“哼”字——感受一下，这个音是从哪儿发出来的？鼻子是用来干嘛的？用鼻子说话，是很伤人的；说反话——难道此时托德就已经知道他所面对的是百万富翁了？ 正所谓“良言一句三冬暖，恶语伤人六月寒”啊，同学们可千万别学会用鼻子说话，千万别学会反过来说话啊！）
师：相信每一个读了这篇小说的人，都会觉得有一个自然段对托德的鬼相刻画得淋漓尽致，哪个自然段。（第六自然段；课件出示）
◆他微笑着接了过去，那种笑容是遍布满脸的，里面还有折纹，还有皱纹，还有螺旋纹，就像你往池塘里抛了一块砖那个样子；当他向那张钞票瞟了一眼的时候，这个笑容就马上牢牢地凝结起来了，变得毫无光彩，恰像你所看到的维苏威火山边上那些小块平地上凝固起来的波状的、满是蛆虫似的一片一片的熔岩一般。
师：你们在这段话旁边写上了什么旁注？
生：见钱眼开，虚情假意。
师：这番话是描写托德的笑容的，你知道笑有哪些种类？
生：微笑、哈哈大笑、捧腹大笑、眉开眼笑、讥笑„„
师：老师也找了一份材料，请看大屏幕。
课件呈现：最自然的笑是眉开眼笑；最动人的笑是含泪而笑； 最热闹的笑是哄堂大笑； 最爽朗的笑是哈哈大笑；最尴尬的笑是苦笑；最温柔的笑是莞尔一笑；最丑陋的笑是皮笑肉不笑；最刺耳的笑是狂笑；最伤人的笑是嘲笑； 最寒心的笑是冷笑； 最恶毒的笑是奸笑；最阴险的笑是狞笑；
师：托德的笑属于哪一种？（生：皮笑若不笑）
师：你们见过这样的笑容吗？（生：没有。）生活中不曾见过这样的笑容绝对是幸运的，幸福的。老师想为大家找一张这种笑容的图片。我找啊找，找啊找，费了九牛二虎之力，结果没找着。我不死心，我继续找啊找，找啊找，终于——找到了一张，想看吗？（倒数三个数；课件出示“沙皮狗”脸的特写图片）看了图片之后，再读读这段话，有没有新的感受。
生：这种笑容也太丑陋了，简直令人作呕。
生：托德人不难看，但笑得如此难看，是因为他是冲着钱笑的，他是个虚情假意、见钱眼开的人。
师：你们再去读读这番话，马克吐温是怎样描写托德的笑容的？
生：抓笑纹写，用打比方的手法写。
师：马克吐温针对托德的笑，用什么来打比方？
生：比作“往池塘里抛一块转那个样子”和“维苏威火山边上的熔岩”。师：大家都知道，打比方要贴切，两样事物之间要有相似之处。（课件出示“火山熔岩”的图片）你们认为，这像一个人的笑容吗？
生异口同声：不像。
师：既然不像，马克吐温为什么还要打这样的比方？是他不会写文章吗？生：不是的，马克吐温故意这样写的，这是夸张的写法。
师：是啊，马克吐温不愧为语言大师，用夸张、讽刺的笔触来描写人物的笑容，淋漓尽致地刻画出了托德这个见钱眼开，虚情假意的势利小人的丑态。
四、概括梳理，品悟老板
师：感谢马克吐温，通过对托德丑陋笑容（板书）的刻画，让我们看清了托德这个人的鬼相和鬼品。那么，小说里的另一个鬼呢，马克吐温又抓住什么进行了描写？（生：语言）
师：快速默读老板说的话，什么感觉？
生：老板这个人很会说话，很繁琐。
师：是啊！全文不过1549个字，而老板居然一口气说了604个字的鬼话。你们说老板累不累啊？要把这番话说下来，确实很累。累人的事情，你们就别做了，这样吧，老师来学学老板，你们边听边想，用哪些词来形容老板的这一番话比较合适。（师惟妙惟肖地范读第十一自然段）
生：老板说起话来真可谓滔滔不绝。
生：老板说起话来喋喋不休。
生：老板说起话来天花乱坠。
师：老板如此滔滔不绝、语无伦次、喋喋不休、天花乱坠地说话，无非就是想达到一个目的，你知道吗？（生：赚到钱）为了达到这个目的，老板还是挺讲究说话的策略的，请大家再去研究研究老板的这番话，想一想，老板为了达到目的，用了哪几招？把相关的句子划下来，并在旁边写上这是什么法。
生自主探究，划找句子，写旁注。
全班交流：
伎俩一：贬低同伴法：把这么一套不像样子的衣服卖给一位脾气特别的百万富翁！托德简直是傻瓜——天生的傻瓜，老是干出这样类事情。把每一个大阔佬都从这儿撵跑了，因为他分不清一位百万富翁和一个流浪汉，老是没有这个眼光。（教师反诘：课文中的我真不走运，如果我刚进店铺时，遇见的不是托德，而是老板，那该多好啊，那样的话就不会遭到冷遇了。生：不是这样的，老板是因为看到百万英镑的大钞票才这样的，老板也是个见钱眼开的人。）
伎俩二：奉承拍马法：裤子没有毛病，非常合您的身，先生，真是妙不可言，再穿上背心，啊哈，又很合适！再穿上上衣——我的天！您瞧吧！真是十全十美——全身都好！我一辈子还没有缝过这么得意的衣服呢。”（师：老板搜肠刮肚，凡是能讨好人的语言全不放过。）
伎俩三：自吹自擂法：我一辈子还没有缝过这么得意的衣服呢。
伎俩四：百依百顺法：无限期！这几个字还不够劲儿，先生，还不够劲。您得说永远永远——那才对哩，先生。
伎俩五：胡编乱造法：这是哈利法克斯公国的亲王殿下„„她母亲病得快死
了„„
„„
师：都说眼睛是心灵的窗户，语言是灵魂的镜子。你们可不能向小说中的老板学说话。马克吐温不惜笔墨，用了604个字描写老板的语言，使得老板这个鬼的特点跃然纸上，你们现在一定很清楚地知道，老板是个怎样的人？
生：跟托德一样，见钱眼开，惟利是图。老板和托德都是为了金钱而甘心推磨的鬼。
五、拓展阅读，激发兴趣
师：同学们，《金钱的魔力》节选自马克吐温的小说《百万英镑》，你们还想知道些什么？老师建议大家去读读《百万英镑》整篇小说，你会明白得更多。
课件出示故事梗概：
一对富豪兄弟打赌，哥哥认为一张面值百万英镑的现钞会给人带来无尽的财富；弟弟则认为因为无法找零而花不出去，那人肯定会饿死。富豪兄弟选择了身无分文、穷困潦倒的美国人亚当斯用一个月的时间来做试验，并答应他完成任务后就可以得到一份不错的工作。亚当斯欣然接受了这个无聊的任务。亚当斯无论去吃饭还是购物都会因衣衫褴褛而遭到人们的白眼。但当他拿出这张钞票时，人们都向他大献殷勤。于是，一幕幕精彩好戏上演了„„
师：想去读读《百万英镑》的请举手。有兴趣的同学还可以关注马克吐温的其他小说。（课件出示马克吐温简介）高尔基说“书籍是人类进步的阶梯”；莎士比亚说“书籍是全世界的营养品”；陈寿说“一日无书，百事荒芜”；杜甫说过“读书破万卷，下笔如有神”；刘向说过“书犹药也，善读之可以医愚”；虞大明说过“读一本好书，就是在跟一个智者对话！”祝愿同学们再读一本又一本的好书中，在一跟一个又一个智者的对话中，越来越懂事，越来越聪慧。
【板书设计】
24.金钱的魔力（有钱能使鬼推磨）
“我”托德（笑容） 老板（语言）
以貌取人 见钱眼开
虚情假意 尖酸刻薄
课 品 即 人 品
——听虞大明老师执教《金钱的魔力》有感
贾志敏
课堂是有生命的。一旦课堂里坐着四十多位孩子，在老师引领下，学习母语，品读文本，师生互动，课堂就注入鲜活的生命。
课品即人品。虞大明的课堂教学语言简明，有力。他在课堂上几乎没有半句废话，字字铿锵，句句千钧——虞大明处事果断，该断则断，该了则了，不闪烁其辞，不拖泥带水。
虞大明的教学设计精心，颇具匠心——虞大明谋事心细，考虑周密，为人沉稳，胸中有全局。
虞大明在课堂上，不急于求成，不忙着替代学生谈出答案——虞大明不急于求成，因为他知道，教育在某种意义上来说，就是等待——一种美丽的等待。
虞大明的课堂常会出现意想不到的精彩。当屏幕上出现了沙皮狗的丑陋嘴脸时，孩子们开心地笑了——虞大明热爱生活，对工作与生活充满激情。
可以用这样的语言概括虞大明的课：环环相套，丝丝入扣，行云流水，滴水不漏。虞大明用挚爱、热情、活力打造出一堂堂让孩子们喜欢的课。
小学语文教学需要虞大明这样的青年教师。
虞大明是怎样一路走来的？于是我想起了昨晚与他一起共进晚餐时他说的一句话：“我是农民的儿子。”
篇一：《百万英镑》观后感_3000字由金钱看社会——观《百万英镑》有感“一个非常诚实和聪明外方人漂泊到伦敦，毫无亲友，手头除了那张一百万英镑的支票而外，一个钱也没有，而且他又。
老师说马克·吐温先生是个幽默大师，又很会讽刺社会上的各种事。读了他的《百万英镑》后，我忍俊不禁，放声大笑。主人公因种种原因，被一家兄弟选上打赌。英格兰银行发行了两张面值。
老师说马克·吐温先生是个幽默大师，又很会讽刺社会上的各种事。读了他的《百万英镑》后，我忍俊不禁，放声大笑。主人公因种种原因，被一家兄弟选上打赌。英格兰银行发行了两。