比较少见的字,寓意又好_少见的巧合

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　　When Thomas Day was ten years old his father gave him a fifty-cent which had been minted(铸造) in 1858, the year of his father" s birth. The boy kept it as a curio (古董) for many years and in 1924, Thomas Day in turn gave the coin to his own son as a keepsake(纪念品). Thomas Day had carved both a W and a G on the coin and both these markings (记号) were plainly visible when he gave the half dollar to his son, Sam Waller Day, in 1924.
　　Sam had the coin in 1949--carried it in his right trouser2 pocket in a little suede (仿麂皮) leather bag as a good luck piece. But the good luck ran out when Sam attended a grocer"s picnic at Lincoln State Park, about thirty miles from his hometown in Evansville, Indiana. The half-dollar broke through3 the worn leather container and was spent at the picnic. All told, the coin had been in the family for more than eighty years.
　　Sam despaired of ever seeing it again, of course. After a few years he ceased (停止) to look for it in the change that came into his grocery store(杂货店). Then, in December of 1961, he dipped into (从……中取出) the till (钱箱) for money to pay Ace Weber, who delivered bread to Sam"s store. Weber glanced at a half-dollar, called Sam"s attention to the fact that it was pretty old--1858. Sure enough, there were the initials4 G and W on the old coin...that had come back to Sam Day after twelve years of wandering.
　　
　　注释：
　　1．coincidence n. 巧合，巧事
　　2．trouser adj．裤子的，裤子上的
　　3．break through(从…)挣脱(或穿越)而出
　　4．initial n．[~s](姓名或组织名称等的)首字母
　　
　　托马斯・戴10岁的时候，他父亲给了他一枚50分硬币，是1858年铸造的，他父亲出生于这一年。托马斯・戴把这枚硬币像古董一样保存了多年。1924年，他转而把硬币作为纪念品给了自己的儿子。托马斯・戴曾经在硬币上刻了一个W和一个G，1924年他把这半美元送给了他儿子萨姆・沃勒・戴时，这两个标记清晰可见。
　　1949年，萨姆仍保存着这枚硬币，他把它作为幸运物放在一个仿麂皮小袋内，揣在右边的裤子口袋里。但是萨姆在林肯国家公园参加杂货商野餐会时，这个幸运物溜了出来，林肯国家公园离他在印第安纳州埃文斯维尔市的家乡大约30英里。那半个美元在野餐会上掉出了旧皮袋并被人花掉了。硬币在这个家庭已经保存了总共80多年了。
　　当然，萨姆对再次看到这枚硬币失去了信心。几年之后，他停止了在他的杂货店收到的零钱中寻找它的举动。随后，在1961年12月，他伸手从钱箱里拿钱给艾斯・韦伯，韦伯给萨姆的商店送面包。韦伯瞥了一眼一个半美元硬币，告诉萨姆这枚硬币相当老了――是1858年的。毋庸置疑，这枚旧钱币上有名字开头字母G和W……在流浪了12年之后，这枚硬币又回到了萨姆・戴的手里。

比较少见的字,寓意又好_少见的巧合

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