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一个英国男人娶了一个马来西亚女人，之后这个马来西亚女人就搬到英格兰和她丈夫一起生活。她随身带着她大部分的财产，其中有一些珍贵的珠宝都是用马来西亚上等的金子做的。她把这些珠宝放在一个小饰品盒里。 一天夜里，他们出去参加聚会。回来时，他们发现屋子被盗了，所有的东西都乱七八糟。不一会儿，他们就发现许多既值钱又有情感价值的东西都被偷了。他们心烦意乱，爬上楼后，妻子直奔卧室，因为小饰品盒就放在梳妆台最上层的抽屉里。 让他们吃惊的是:盒子还放在原来的地方。盖子打开了，但是珠宝还在里面。他们都不明白为什么小偷没有偷走很明显最值钱的珠宝。他们猜想可能是小偷受了惊吓，匆匆逃跑了。 后来，小偷被抓住了，负责此事的警官同样也很疑惑，就问其中的一个为什么没有拿走小饰品盒里的珠宝。当然，小偷看到了那些马来西亚金子,但是认为那是些廉价的仿制品，就是卖也卖不了几个钱。这只是品味的问题！ The Thieves and the Gold A certain English man married a Malaysian woman, and she moved to England to live with him. She took most of her treasured possessions with her. Some of the very valuable items were pieces of Malay jewelry fashioned in the finest Malay gold. She kept these jewelry pieces in a small trinket box. One night the couple went out for the evening. When they returned they discovered their house had been burgled. Everything was in a terrible mess! Within a short time of their return it became apparent that a large number of items of both material and senti- mental value had been stolen. The distraught couple ran upstairs, the wife in particular running to the bedroom where her trinket box was kept in the top drawer of her dressing table. To their astonishment, the box lay where it had been left. The lid was open but the jewelry remained inside. Neither of them could understand why the thieves had left what were clearly the most valuable items of jewelry. They thought, perhaps the thieves had been disturbed and fled in a hurry. Some time later, the thieves were arrested and the police officer in charge, who had been similarly puzzled asked one of the gang why they had not taken the items in the trinket box. Apparently, the thieves had taken one look at the Malaysian gold and thought it to be tasteless imitation jewelry which would not have fetched a good price, if they tried to sell it. It is just a question of taste! |
