When a village fool blossomed¹ out all of a sudden in new clothes,the neighbors wondered at his property.

村子里的白痴突然发了大财，穿上了新衣服，邻居们对他的暴富感到很惊奇。

A:What's happened to you?

你做了什么事？

B:1 won the first prize in the lottery².

我中了头彩。

A:How did you come to guess the luck number?

你是怎么猜中幸运号码的？

B:Well, three times running I dreamed of seven; so I figured it out that three times seven are twenty-four, and I bought ticket number 24 I won the first prize.

哦，我做梦梦见了7这个号码三次。于是我算出7的3倍是24．于是我买了号码是24的彩票。这张票中了头彩。

A:NVhy, you blamed fool, three times seven is twenty-one, not twenty-four.

哎呀，你这个该死的傻瓜，7的3倍是21不是24。

B:Is that so? Well, twenty-four won, anyway.

是这样吗？哦，不管怎么说，24中了。