UNIT 3 The Million Pound Bank-Note單元教案
e.g. sally earns an incredible amount of money in that company.薩莉在那家公司的薪水多的驚人。
(2) impossible to believe不可相信的
e.g. they told us an incredible story! 他們對我們講了個不可信的故事。
incredibly (adv.)
(1) to a great degree; extremely or unusually非常地；極端地
e.g. incredibly hot weather極熱的天氣
(2) in a way that is difficult to believe; amazingly難以置信地；驚人地
e.g. incredibly, no one had ever thought of such a simple idea before.真是難以置信，這樣簡單的主意竟沒有人想到。
ii. 背景知識
1. about the ￡1, 000,000 bank-note
英格蘭銀行出于特殊的需要發行了兩張面值一百萬的鈔票，其中一張收回并作廢，但還有一張卻留在銀行，兩兄弟打賭，一個身無分文的人帶著這張鈔票會發生什么，兄弟a說會死去，兄弟b說他肯定能活一個月。他們物色了一個年輕人做試驗，帶著這張毫無使用價值的百萬英鎊鈔票。年輕人走進商店買東西，拿出鈔票要求找錢，店老板都震驚了并立刻改變態度，極力討好這個年輕人，年輕人得到了他想得到的，包括愛情和受人尊敬。他愛上的女孩正是兄弟b的女兒。最后，百萬英磅被銀行收回并作廢，年輕人過上了幸福生活。
the bank of england once issued two notes of a million pounds each, to be used for a special purpose connected with some public transaction with a foreign country. for some reason or other only one of these had been used and canceled; the other still lay in the vaults of the bank. well, the brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wondering what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned adrift in london without a friend, and with no money