有一个特别在乎钱的人，一天他叫儿子去买一盒火柴，并且告诉儿子一定要搞清楚每根火柴都是好的。他的儿子一会儿就回来了。这个人拿出火柴划了一根，没有燃着。他又划了几根还是没有一根划燃。他非常生气地说:“我不是告诉过你要保证每一根火柴都是好的吗?”

There was a man who cared¹ more for money than anything else, one day he sent his son to buy a box of matches, and told the boy he must see that every match in the box was good, soon the boy came² back. The man took³ out a match and struck⁴ it, but it failed⁵ to light, he tried several⁶ more, but none⁷ was good. He got⁸ very angry and said⁹, “I told you every match must be good, didn't I?”

“是的，你确实说过，”孩子回答，“我把盒子里所有的火柴都试过了，每根都能划得燃。”

“Yes,you did,” the boy replied¹⁰. “I tried out all the matches in the box and every match lit.”