Text CLAY:I didn't happen to find it.I went looking for it. You know Black Rock,Mr.Van Dusen?Well,the tide hardly ever gets low enough for a fellow to get around to the ocean side of it (55,but a little while ago it did,so I went around there and I found this oyster. HARRY:I've been here twenty-four years,Clay,and this is the first time I've ever heard of anybody finding an oyster on our beach-at Black Rock,or anywhere else. CLAY:Well,I did,Mr.Van Dusen.It's shut tight,it's alive,and there's a pearl in it,worth at least three hundred dollars.56 GREELEY:A big pearl
Text 课 文 CLAY: I didn’t happen to find it. I went looking for it. You know Black Rock, Mr. Van Dusen? Well, the tide hardly ever gets low enough for a fellow to get around to the ocean side of it (55), but a little while ago it did, so I went around there and I found this oyster. HARRY: I’ve been here twenty-four years, Clay, and this is the first time I’ve ever heard of anybody finding an oyster on our beach – at Black Rock, or anywhere else. CLAY: Well, I did, Mr. Van Dusen. It’s shut tight, it’s alive, and there’s a pearl in it, worth at least three hundred dollars.(56) GREELEY: A big pearl
Text MISS McCUTCHEON:Now,you children listen to me.It's never too soon for any of us to face the truth.(57 The truth is,Clay,you want money because you need money.The truth is also that there is no pearl in the oyster. GREELEY:How do you know?Did you look? MISS MeCUTCHEON:No,but neither did Clay,and inasmuch as only one oyster in a million has a pearl in it,truth favors the probability that this is not the millionth oyster...(58 CLAY:(stubbornly)There 's a big pearl in the oyster. MISS MeCUTCHEON:Mr.Van Dusen,shall we open the oyster and show the children that there is no pearl in it?
Text 课 文 MISS McCUTCHEON: Now, you children listen to me. It’s never too soon for any of us to face the truth. (57) The truth is, Clay, you want money because you need money. The truth is also that there is no pearl in the oyster. GREELEY: How do you know? Did you look? MISS McCUTCHEON: No, but neither did Clay, and inasmuch as only one oyster in a million has a pearl in it, truth favors the probability that this is not the millionth oyster…(58) CLAY: (stubbornly) There ‘s a big pearl in the oyster. MISS McCUTCHEON: Mr. Van Dusen, shall we open the oyster and show the children that there is no pearl in it?
Text HARRY:In a moment,Miss McCutcheon.And what's that you have. MISS McCUTCHEON:A chair,as you can see. HARRY:How many legs does it have? MISS McCUTCHEON:Three of course.I can count to three, I hope HARRY:What do you want with a chair with only three legs? MISS McCUTCHEON:I'm going to bring to things from the sea the same as everybody else in town. HARRY:But everybody else in town doesn't bring things, from the sea-just the children,Judge Applegarth,Fenton Lockhart and myself
Text 课 文 HARRY: In a moment, Miss McCutcheon. And what’s that you have. MISS McCUTCHEON: A chair, as you can see. HARRY: How many legs does it have? MISS McCUTCHEON: Three of course. I can count to three, I hope. HARRY: What do you want with a chair with only three legs? MISS McCUTCHEON: I’m going to bring to things from the sea the same as everybody else in town. HARRY: But everybody else in town doesn’t bring things, from the sea – just the children, Judge Applegarth, Fenton Lockhart and myself
Text MISS McCUTCHEON:In any ease,the same as the children,Judge Applegarth,Fenton Lockhart,and you. Judge Applegarth?Who's he? HARRY:He judged swine at a county fair one time,so we call him Judge. MISS MeCUTCHEON:Pigs? HARRY:Swine's a little old-fashioned but I prefer it to pigs, and since both words mean the same thing-Well,I wouldn't care to call a man like Arthur Applegarth a pig judge. MISS MCCUTCHEON:Did he actually judge swine,as vou prefer to put i证(59，at a county fair-one time? HARRY:Nobody checked up.He said he did
Text 课 文 MISS McCUTCHEON: In any ease, the same as the children, Judge Applegarth, Fenton Lockhart, and you. Judge Applegarth? Who’s he? HARRY: He judged swine at a county fair one time, so we call him Judge. MISS McCUTCHEON: Pigs? HARRY: Swine’s a little old-fashioned but I prefer it to pigs, and since both words mean the same thing – Well, I wouldn’t care to call a man like Arthur Applegarth a pig judge. MISS McCUTCHEON: Did he actually judge swine, as you prefer to put it (59), at a county fair – one time? HARRY: Nobody checked up. He said he did
Text MISS McCUTCHEON:So that entitled (60)him to be called Judge Applegarth? HARRY:It certainly did. MISS MeCUTCHEON:On that basis,Clay's oyster has a big pearl in it because he says so,is that it? HARRY:I didn't say that. MISS McCUTCHEON:Are we living in the Middle Ages(61),Mr.Van dusen? GREELEY:No,this is 1953,Miss McCutcheon. MISS MeCUTCHEON:Yes,Greeley,and to illustrate what I mean,that's water you have in that bottle,Nothing else. GREELEY:Sea water
Text 课 文 MISS McCUTCHEON: So that entitled (60) him to be called Judge Applegarth? HARRY: It certainly did. MISS McCUTCHEON: On that basis, Clay’s oyster has a big pearl in it because he says so, is that it? HARRY: I didn’t say that. MISS McCUTCHEON: Are we living in the Middle Ages(61), Mr. Van dusen? GREELEY: No, this is 1953, Miss McCutcheon. MISS McCUTCHEON: Yes, Greeley, and to illustrate what I mean, that’s water you have in that bottle, Nothing else. GREELEY: Sea water