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I注释与疑难解析：
1.A rich person gives you a large amount of money to use as you like. What will you do with it?
一个有钱人给了你一大笔钱让你随意花， 你会拿它 做些什么？
a large amount of 常用于修饰不可数名词。
e.g. Now he has a large amount of money. He can do anything he wants with it.现在他有了一大笔钱， 他就可以做他想做的事了。
do with 对待， 处理， 处置
e.g. What shall we do with the waste paper? 咱们怎样处理这些废纸？
2. Have you ever made a bet with a friend? If so, what did you bet on? 你和朋友打过赌吗？如果打过，赌的是什么？
make a bet 打赌
e.g. We made a bet on the outcome of the next horse race. 我们就下次赛马的结果打了个赌。
e.g. I made a bet that we would win the football match. 我打赌我们会赢了那场足球赛。
3.Now ladies and gentlemen, you’re about to hear the most incredible tale. 女士们， 先生们， 你们将要听到一个最令人难以置信的故事。
be about to do 正要（即将）做某事
e.g. Just as I was about to leave the room, the telephone rang. 我正要离开房间， 电话铃响了。
e.g. He was about to say something when he saw her winking at him. 他刚要开口， 突然看到她在向自己使眼色。
4.He is lost in London. 他在伦敦迷了路。
be lost 迷路；倾心于某事
e.g. He was lost in the forest for three days and nights and was finally rescued by his friends. 他迷失在树林里三天三夜， 最后被朋友们救了出来。
e.g. He was so lost in reading this book that he forgot the time of his train. 他看书入了神， 把上火车的时间都忘了。
5.Permit me to lead the way, sir. 先生，请让我来带路吧。
permit someone to do 准许…做某事
e. g. Will you permit us to use this room for a meeting this afternoon? 你能准许我们今天下午在这个房间开个会吗？
permit doing 准许做某事
e.g. The rules of the club don’t permit smoking. 俱乐部的规矩是不允许吸烟。
与permit同义的词allow，也这样使用。
6.As a matter of fact, I landed in Britain by accident. 事实上，我在英国上岸是偶然的
as a matter of fact = in fact 实际上，事实上
e.g. I didn’t go to the club yesterday. As a matter of fact, I haven’t been there for a long time. 我昨天没有去俱乐部，实际上，我已很长时间没去那里了。
by accident 偶然的/地
e.g. By accident, he found the place where his brother had hidden the treasure. 他偶然发现了他弟弟藏宝的地方。
7.About a month ago I was sailing out of the bay—(his eyes stare at what is left of the brothers’ dinner on the table) 大约一个月前，我扬帆驶出了海湾---（他的眼睛盯在桌子上兄弟俩剩下的残羹剩菜上。）
stare at 盯着瞧；凝视
e.g. It is not polite to stare at other people. 盯着看别人是不礼貌的。
8.The next morning I’d about given myself up for lost when a ship spotted me. 第二天早。
to be honest 老实说，说实话
e.g. I wouldn’t buy that ho上，我正感到绝望的时候，一艘船发现了我。
spot做动词时有“认出”的意思。
e.g. He is very tall and can be easily spotted in the crowd. 他很高，在人群中一眼就能看见。
9.I earned my passage by working as unpaid hand, which accounts for my appearance.我靠做义工来顶替船费，这就是我为什么衣冠不整的原因了。
earn one’s passage 挣取旅费
e.g. He couldn’t afford the fare, and so he had to earn his passage by doing jobs on the ship.他交不起船费，只得靠在船上做些零活来挣取路费。
account for 对…做出解释；说明原因
e.g. Nobody could account for his absence from school. 没人能对他旷课做出解释。
10.Well, to be honest, I have none. 哦，老实说，我一分钱都没有use, to be honest, it’s too close to the main road. 说实话，我不会去买那所房子。它离大路太近。
11.It’ll cost a tiny bit.这得多花点儿钱啦。
a tiny bit不多；很少。课文中用的是讥讽语，意为“得破费些钱”。
12.Well, we will have to take a chance.哦，我们要赌一把了。
take a/ the/ chance/ chances碰运气；冒风险
e.g. We decided to take a chance on the weather and have the party outdoors.我们决定与老天爷赌一把，在户外聚会。
e.g. We mustn’t take chances. We’d better play safe.我们不要冒险，我们最好求稳。
13. (in a rude manner) What’s there to wait for? （很不耐烦地）还等什么？
in a…manner以…的举止（态度）
e.g. She talked to us in a very polite manner.她很有礼貌地与我们谈话。
e.g. The dinner was prepared in the Japanese manner.晚宴是日本式的。
14.The Bank of England has issued two notes in this amount this year. Anyway, it can’t be fake. 英格兰银行今年发行了两张这样面值的钞票。不管怎样，这不可能是假钞。
can’t表示推测，表示“不可能是”。
e.g. He can’t be joking. He must mean it.他不可能是开玩笑，他是认真的。
e.g. It can’t be Jim. I know him too well.不可能是吉姆，我太了解他了。
15. He is in rags! 他穿得破破烂烂的！
be in穿着；带着
e.g. The girl in green is a good friend of mine. Would you like to meet her? 穿绿衣的女孩是我的一个好朋友，你想认识一下吗？
e.g. The man in uniform is my father.那个穿制服的男人是我父亲。
16.I wonder, Mr. Adams, if you’d mind us asking a few questions.亚当斯先生，不知你是否介意我们问几个问题。
（1）I wonder whether (if) you…是表示委婉请求的句式，用于较为正式的场合。译为：不知您是否…
（2）Mind us asking a few questions为动名词的复合结构在从句中做动词 mind的宾语。“名词的所有格/形容词性物主代词+doing”为动名词（-ing形式）的复合结构，该结构在从句中能做主语，表语和宾语。
用作主语：Sophia’s having seen them did not surprise us.索菲亚已经看见了他们，但这并不使我们感到惊讶。
用作表语：What worried the child most was his not being allowed to visit his mother in the hospital.使那孩子焦虑不安的是不准许他到医院探望他的妈妈。
在现代英语中，动名词复合结构用作宾语时，其名词多数用普通形式，形容词性物主代词也多用代词的宾格。Mind us asking…就属这种情况。再如：
I hate people being unhappy.我不愿意人们不高兴。
Please say nothing about us calling.请不要（对别人）说我们来拜访的事。
17.And it was the ship that brought you to England.正是那艘船把你带到了英国。
此句是个强调句型，其句型为It was+被强调部分+that+句子剩余部分。
e.g. It was in this room that Lu Xun once lived.这就是鲁迅生前住过的房间。
e.g. Was it because his mother was ill that he didn’t go to school? 他不来上学是因为他妈妈病了吗？
e.g. When was it that the club was set up? 这个俱乐部的成立是在什么时候？
18.incredible (adj.)
(1) difficult to believe; amazing or fantastic难以置信的；不可思议的；惊人的；奇异的
e.g. Sally earns an incredible amount of money in that company.萨莉在那家公司的薪水多的惊人。
(2) impossible to believe不可相信的
e.g. They told us an incredible story! 他们对我们讲了个不可信的故事。
Incredibly (adv.)
(1) to a great degree; extremely or unusually非常地；极端地
e.g. incredibly hot weather极热的天气
(2) in a way that is difficult to believe; amazingly难以置信地；惊人地
e.g. Incredibly, no one had ever thought of such a simple idea before.真是难以置信，这样简单的主意竟没有人想到。
II. 背景知识
1. About the ￡1, 000,000 Bank-note
英格兰银行出于特殊的需要发行了两张面值一百万的钞票，其中一张收回并作废，但还有一张却留在银行，两兄弟打赌，一个身无分文的人带着这张钞票会发生什么，兄弟A说会死去，兄弟B说他肯定能活一个月。他们物色了一个年轻人做试验，带着这张毫无使用价值的百万英镑钞票。年轻人走进商店买东西，拿出钞票要求找钱，店老板都震惊了并立刻改变态度，极力讨好这个年轻人，年轻人得到了他想得到的，包括爱情和受人尊敬。他爱上的女孩正是兄弟B的女儿。最后，百万英磅被银行收回并作废，年轻人过上了幸福生活。
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