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美情侶裝修廚房發現“寶藏”：現金、陳年威士忌和尋寶游戲

Couple amazed by what's inside 50-year-old safe found hidden behind kitchen wall

Imagine you're doing some home DIY, you knock through a wall, discover a safe and inside find $50,000 and a treasure hunt.

想象一下，你正在自己動手整修住宅，敲穿一處墻壁后，發現了一個保險箱，里面有5萬美元和一個尋寶游戲。

It's almost too fun to be true, but it happened to a couple in Phoenix, US.

這種事太美妙，不大可能是真的，但美國鳳凰城的一對情侶真的遇到了。

Posted on imgur, a woman has described an incredible tale of finding a series of clues inside a decades-old safe.

一名女子在圖片分享網站imgur上曬出了自己的離奇經歷：她在一個有幾十年歷史的保險箱里發現了一系列線索。

She and her partner were demolishing their kitchen when they found the safe.

她和伴侶拆廚房時發現了這個保險箱。

They remembered that when they moved in they found a safe code in the back of a medicine cabinet and after half a dozen attempts the safe opened.

他們記得搬進這個住處時曾在藥柜后面發現一串保險箱密碼，試了好幾次后，保險箱終于打開了。

And inside? Just $51,080, mostly in $100 notes and a bottle of bourbon dated 1960.

里面有什么?不過是51080美元現金，大多數是面值100的美鈔，還有一瓶1960年的波旁威士忌。

She writes: ""We stared in disbelief.

她在網上寫道：“我們難以置信地瞪大了眼睛。”

"Time stood still.

“時間靜止了。”

"I started to reach in the safe and Eddie yelled, ‘Wait it might be booby trapped!’ I’m still laughing at that one."

“我開始試圖把手伸進保險箱，埃迪(Eddie)大叫：'等等，萬一有陷阱呢!’現在想想還覺得好笑。”

But also inside was a book, entitled 'A Guide for the Perplexed by E.F. Schumacher' published in 1977.

里面還有一本書，是1977年出版的E·F·舒馬赫(E.F. Schumacher)的著作《迷途指津》(A Guide for the Perplexed)。

And inside that was a black and white photo of a mystery man and written on the back is the message: "Alan, I have a book you must read.

書中夾著一張黑白照片，上面是個神秘的男人，照片背面寫著：“艾倫(Alan)，我有一本書，你必須讀讀。

"I’ve underlined a few key passages.

“我在幾個關鍵段落劃了線。”

"Your friend, Vincent."

“你的朋友，文森特(Vincent)。”

And THEN on several pages there are a series of what seem to be clues.

然而還真有幾頁上的內容看上去像是線索。

On page seven, an underlined passage of the chapter titled, ‘On Philosophical Maps’ reads: “One way of looking at the world as a whole is by means of a map, that is to say, some sort of plan or outline that shows where various things are to be found.”

在第7頁，《論哲學地圖》這一章內容里劃了這樣一段：“全面看世界的一個方式是看地圖，也就是有助于找到各色事物的某種平面圖或草圖。”

And tucked into page seven is a card with the state of Arizona on it.

第7頁還塞有一張畫有亞利桑那州(Arizona)地圖的卡片。

Then on page eleven is a photo of a house with 'there yielded such fruitful results" written underneath.

另外，第11頁有一所房子的照片，下面寫著“此處碩果累累”。

On the back of the photo, which depicts a tree split into three, "Where one tree becomes three" is written.

照片背面畫著一棵一分為三的樹，并寫著“在一棵樹一分為三的地方”。

The woman writes: "There might be a keen eye out there who recognizes this place and I’d be curious about that three-headed tree!"

這位女子寫道：“要是有誰眼光好，能認出這個地方，我很好奇那棵三頭樹的事!”

On page 14, an underlined passage reads: “Most Modern Readers will be reluctant to believe that perfect happiness is attainable by methods of which their modern world knows nothing.”

在第14頁，有段劃線的文字是這樣的：“多數現代讀者將不愿意相信，完美的幸福可以通過現代世界一無所知的方法實現。”

And even more - a Bingo card has three numbers circled.

里面甚至還有張賓果卡(Bingo card，一種賭博游戲卡片)，上面有三個圈著的數字。

The woman and her partner said they don't know what they will do with the money yet but she wrote: "If Alan is still out there, it was meant for him after all.

該名女子和她的情侶說還不知道該怎么處理這些錢，但她寫道：“如果艾倫還活著，這錢注定是他的。”

"But we’re keeping the bourbon!"

“但波旁威士忌我們要啦!”

重點詞匯：

demolish：拆除

bourbon：波旁威士忌

booby trap： 設置陷阱

attainable：可以獲得的