26 Stealing

CHAPTER 1 Something for Nothing DO YOU ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT THING? How honest are you? Answer these questions to find out! Read each question, and choose A (10 points) or B (5 points). 1. You pay for some things at the store with a $20 bill. But you don't get back a $10 bill you get a $100 bill. What do you do? A Give it back. B Take it and leave. 2. Your friend has a new bike, but you think he stole it. He says you can buy it for $20. What do you do? A Say no. B Buy it. 3. You find a wallet in the street. There is a lot of money in it. What do you do? A Take it to the police. B Take the money this person has a lot of it. 4. It's a hot day and you really want a drink. You go into a store. The bottle of water costs 80 cents, but you only have 50 cents. What do you do? A Leave it. B Steal it— it's only a bottle of water. Your Points How many points did you get? 35—40: You are very honest. 25—30: You should try to be more honest. 20: Are the police looking for you?

第一章不劳而获你总是做正确的事吗？ 你有多诚实？回答这些问题，找出答案吧！阅读每个问题，选择A（10分）或B（5分）。 1. 你在商店买东西用的是0美元的账单。 但你得到的不是一张0的钞票，而是一张00的钞票。 你是怎么做的？A还给我。 B拿着它走吧。2. 你的朋友有一辆新自行车，但你认为是他偷的。 他说你可以花0美元买到。 你是怎么做的？A说不。B买吧。 3. 你在街上捡到一个钱包。 这里面有很多钱。 你是怎么做的？A把它交给警察。 B拿钱来说，这个人有很多钱。 4. 天气很热，你真的很想喝一杯。 你走进一家商店。一瓶水要80美分，但你只有50美分。 你是怎么做的？A别管了。 B偷吧——只是一瓶水而已。 你得了多少分？ 35-40：你很诚实。 25-30：你应该试着更加诚实。 警察在找你吗？

CHAPTER 2 Thieves We Like WE TELL STORIES ABOUT THIEVES TO CHILDREN. DO THESE STORIES TEACH CHILDREN RIGHT FROM WRONG? Here is a popular story that parents tell children... Jack lives in a house with his mother. They have no money. They only have a cow. One day the cow gives no more milk. Jack and his mother must sell the cow for money. On the road to the town, Jack meets a man. "I'll give you five magic beans for the cow," he says. Jack gives him the cow and takes the beans home. Jack's mother is very angry with him. She throws the beans out the window and doesn't give him any dinner. In the night, the beans grow into a very tall beanstalk, so tall it goes into the clouds. The next day Jack sees the beanstalk and goes up. Jack comes to a really big house in the sky. It's the home of a giant. He goes inside and the giant's wife gives him food. Before he leaves, Jack steals money and other things from the house. The giant runs after him. Jack goes down the beanstalk and the giant starts to go down also. When Jack gets to the bottom, he cuts down the beanstalk. The giant falls and dies. So, is Jack a good boy for getting money for his family, or is he a thief? Or, is he both?

我们喜欢给孩子们讲小偷的故事。 这些故事能教会孩子分辨是非吗？ 这是一个父母常给孩子讲的故事…… 杰克和他妈妈住在一所房子里。 他们没有钱。他们只有一头牛。 一天，奶牛出不了奶了。 杰克和他的妈妈必须卖掉奶牛换钱。 在去镇上的路上，杰克遇到了一个男人。 “我给你五颗魔豆换那头牛，”他说。 杰克把牛给了他，把豆子带回家。 杰克的妈妈很生他的气。 她把豆子扔出窗外，不给他任何晚餐。 到了晚上，豆子会长成很高的豆茎，高得直插云霄。 第二天，杰克看到了豆茎，就爬了上去。 杰克来到了天上的一所大房子前。 这是一个巨人的家。他走进去，巨人的妻子给了他食物。 在他离开之前，杰克从房子里偷了钱和其他东西。 巨人追着他跑。杰克顺着豆茎往下走，巨人也开始往下走。 当杰克到达底部时，他砍倒了豆茎。 巨人倒下死了。那么，杰克是一个为家人赚钱的好孩子，还是一个小偷？ 还是两者兼而有之？

Jack and the Beanstalk is only a story for children. But some people really stole things and killed other people, and we love their stories, too. We make them famous in books and movies. Jesse James was a poor farmer from Missouri, USA. Jesse and his friends started to steal money from banks and trains. They killed people, too. But people loved reading about them in newspapers. Ned Kelly also came from a farm, but in Australia. One day, the police put his mother in prison, so Ned and his friends killed three policemen. He later stole money from banks and became very famous. People were with Kelly, not with the police. Pirates are also thieves we like. Stories of pirates from long ago are very popular, especially in the movies. But movie pirates are not like real pirates. Take Henry Morgan (1635—1688), for example. Morgan, a Welshman, was not poor. He was very rich. He killed many people and stole a lot of money from ships. He also took money from Spanish cities in the Caribbean. In 1671, Morgan and his men took a lot of the money from Panama City. The Spanish wanted the English king, Charles II, to arrest Morgan. But King Charles liked him and made him Sir Henry Morgan. So crime paid Morgan very well.

杰克和豆茎只是给孩子们讲的故事。 但有些人真的偷了东西，杀了别人，我们也喜欢他们的故事。 我们让他们在书和电影中出名。 杰西·詹姆斯是来自美国密苏里州的一个贫穷的农民。 杰西和他的朋友们开始从银行和火车上偷钱。 他们也杀人。但是人们喜欢在报纸上读到关于他们的报道。 内德·凯利也来自一个农场，但在澳大利亚。 有一天，警察把他的母亲关进了监狱，所以奈德和他的朋友们杀了三名警察。 后来他从银行偷钱，变得非常有名。 人们和凯利在一起，而不是和警察在一起。 海盗也是我们喜欢的小偷。 很久以前的海盗故事很受欢迎，尤其是在电影中。 但是电影中的海盗和现实中的海盗不一样。 以亨利·摩根（1635-1688）为例。 摩根是威尔士人，并不穷。 他非常富有。他杀了很多人，从船上偷了很多钱。 他还从加勒比海的西班牙城市拿钱。 1671年，摩根和他的手下从巴拿马城拿走了很多钱。 西班牙人希望英国国王查理二世逮捕摩根。 但是查理国王喜欢他，封他为亨利·摩根爵士。 所以犯罪给摩根带来了丰厚的回报。

CHAPTER 3 Heist WHEN PEOPLE STEAL SOMETHING BIG IN A NEW OR DIFFERENT WAY, WE CALL IT A HEIST. HERE ARE TWO FAMOUS ONES- BUT BOTH WENT WRONG. Paris, Sunday, August 20, 1911 The Louvre is a famous art museum in Paris. Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian, knows it well because he worked there before. On this day he goes to the museum and stays after it closes. He waits until early the next morning. Then, he takes Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, Mona Lisa, from the wall, puts it under his coat, and walks out. Two years later, Alfredo Geri gets a letter from Peruggia. Geri buys and sells paintings in Florence. Peruggia writes that he wants to sell the Mona Lisa. Geri speaks to the police, then he answers the letter. Peruggia brings the painting to Florence. Geri meets him, but the police also come, and they arrest Peruggia. Peruggia wasn't just a criminal after easy money. He had a good reason to steal the Mona Lisa. In the early 1800s, the French army was in Florence, Italy. Peruggia thought that they stole the painting and took it back to France. But this isn't true. At the end of his life, da Vinci lived in France and finished the painting there. The French king, Francis 1, bought it after da Vinci died. But in 1913, many Italians thought the painting's home was in Italy.

当人们以一种新的或不同的方式偷走一件大东西时，我们称之为抢劫。 这里有两个著名的例子——但都出了问题。 巴黎，1911年8月20日星期日卢浮宫是巴黎著名的艺术博物馆。 意大利人文森佐·佩鲁贾（Vincenzo Peruggia）对这里非常了解，因为他之前在这里工作过。 在这一天，他去了博物馆，并在关门后留下来。 他一直等到第二天一大早。 然后，他从墙上拿了列奥纳多·达·芬奇的名画《蒙娜丽莎》，把它放在外套下面，然后走了出去。 两年后，阿尔弗雷多·格里收到佩鲁贾的一封信。 Geri在佛罗伦萨买卖绘画。 佩鲁贾写道，他想卖掉《蒙娜丽莎》。 Geri和警察说了话，然后他回了信。 佩鲁贾把这幅画带到了佛罗伦萨。 Geri遇到了他，但是警察也来了，他们逮捕了Peruggia。 佩鲁贾不只是一个贪图钱财的罪犯。 他偷蒙娜丽莎是有充分理由的。 19世纪初，法国军队驻扎在意大利的佛罗伦萨。 佩鲁贾以为他们偷走了这幅画，并把它带回了法国。 但事实并非如此。在他生命的最后，达·芬奇住在法国，并在那里完成了这幅画。 达·芬奇死后，法国国王弗朗西斯一世买下了它。 但在1913年，许多意大利人认为这幅画的故乡在意大利。

London, Tuesday, November 7,2000 De Beers is the biggest diamond business in the world. In 2000, some of their best diamonds were in the Millennium Dome in London. One of these was the famous Millennium Star diamond. Others were very expensive blue diamonds. Many people came to see them. But some men wanted to steal the diamonds. The Dome is beside the River Thames, so the criminals got a fast boat. It waited for them near the Dome. The thieves came into the Dome quickly. They drove right through the door in a digger. But the police were waiting for them! Before the crime, one of the criminals talked about it. The story got back to the police. On the day, some police dressed like workers, and others watched the thieves' boat. There were no diamonds in the Dome, only glass copies. The police arrested all of the thieves. One of the biggest heists in history went very wrong.

2000年11月7日，星期二，伦敦，戴比尔斯是世界上最大的钻石公司。 2000年，他们的一些最好的钻石被存放在伦敦的千禧穹顶。 其中之一就是著名的千年之星钻石。 还有一些是非常昂贵的蓝钻。 许多人来看他们。 但是有些人想偷钻石。 圆顶教堂在泰晤士河边，所以罪犯们有一艘快艇。 它在圆顶附近等着他们。 小偷们很快就进入了圆顶。 他们开着挖掘机直接冲进了门。 但是警察正在等着他们！在犯罪之前，其中一个罪犯谈到了这件事。 这件事传到了警方那里。 当天，一些警察打扮成工人的样子，其他人则监视着盗贼的船。 穹顶里没有钻石，只有玻璃复制品。 警察逮捕了所有的小偷。 历史上最大的抢劫案之一出了大错。

CHAPTER 4 Stealing from You YOU MAY LIKE TO READ ABOUT FAMOUS HEISTS AND WATCH MOVIES ABOUT THEM, BUT IT'S DIFFERENT WHEN PEOPLE STEAL FROM YOU. THAT ISN'T SO MUCH FUN. One day you read this in the newspaper: Put your money into Doffma LLC and we'll pay you 1% every month! So you give them $500, and they pay you $5 a month. It's more than you can get from the bank. Other people put their money into Doffma, and they get money every month, too. But one day it all stops, and you can't get your money back. You call Doffma LLC, but there's nobody there! This is called a scam, and it's very old, maybe hundreds of years old. But now, with the Internet, there are new scams, and the scammers come right into your home. You get this email: Dear Susi, How are you? I'm in Malaysia on vacation, but last night somebody stole my money, phone, and plane ticket. I can't pay for my hotel, and I can't get home. Please send me $3,000. I will pay you back very soon. Your friend, Jessica Jessica is a good friend, so you send her the money.

你可能喜欢读一些著名的抢劫案的故事，或者看一些关于他们的电影，但是当别人偷你的东西时，情况就不同了。 那可不好玩。有一天你在报纸上读到：把你的钱投到Doffma有限责任公司，我们每个月给你1%的利息！你给他们00，他们给你一个月的工资。 这比你从银行得到的要多。 其他人把钱投到Doffma，他们每个月也能得到钱。 但有一天一切都停止了，你就拿不回你的钱了。 你打电话给Doffma有限责任公司，但那里没有人！这就是所谓的骗局，它很古老，可能有几百年的历史了。 但是现在，有了互联网，有了新的骗局，骗子就会直接进入你的家。 你会收到这封邮件：亲爱的苏西，你好吗？ 我在马来西亚度假，但昨晚有人偷走了我的钱、手机和机票。 我付不起旅馆的钱，也回不了家。 请寄给我一万块。我很快就还你钱。 你的朋友杰西卡杰西卡是你的好朋友，所以你把钱寄给她。