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 cared 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 came back. The man took out a match and struck it, but it failed to light, he tried several more, but none was good. He got very angry and said, “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。”