当我还是个七岁孩子的时候,有一次过节,朋友们给我的衣袋里塞满了铜币。我立刻向一家卖儿童玩具的店铺跑去。半路上,我却被另一个男孩手中的哨子叫声吸引住了,于是就主动要求用我所有的铜币换了他这个哨子。然后我回到家里,吹着哨子满屋子转,非常得意,却打扰了全家人。我的哥哥、姐姐和表姐们知道了我所做的这个交易,便告诉我,为这个哨子我付出了比它原价高四倍的钱。他们还使我懂得,用那些多 When I was a seven-year-old child, I had a holiday and my friends filled my pocket with copper coins. I immediately went to a shop selling children’s toys. Half way through, I was drawn to the whistle of another boy’s whistle, so I volunteered to use all my copper coins for his whistle. Then I went home and whistled around the house. I was very proud of it, but I disturbed the whole family. My brother, sister, and cousin knew what I had done and told me that for this whistle I paid four times more than it was. They also made me understand that with those many