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Jack Simplot

机译：杰克·辛普洛特

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Does the American Dream come with fries or hash browns? In Jack Sim-plot's version, it came with both. Starting out at 14 with little education and only $80 from his mother, Mr Simplot died a multi-billionaire. Much of his success he owed to the Russet Burbank that grows so well in Idaho's light volcanic soil, and Mr Spud, as he became known, never forgot this debt, nor rejected his roots: till the day he died his favourite restaurant was McDonald's, where he always ordered either french fries or hash browns.rnMr Simplot's was an all-American story, even involving a log cabin. That was the house built by his father, after the family moved to Idaho from Iowa in 1910. Dad, however, was stern and after a series of rows young Jack left home for the small town of Declo. The teachers in his boarding-house there were paid with IOUS that carried interest if held long enough. With money raised from rearing orphaned lambs, Jack bought these notes for 50 cents on the dollar and used them as collateral for a bank loan. That money bought him several hundred pigs, which he fattened with swill made from potato peelings and the meat of wild horses: "I shot 'em, jerked the hides off and cooked 'em myself," he said. He sold the pigs for $7,800.
机译：美国梦会附带薯条或马铃薯煎饼吗？在Jack Sim-plot的版本中，两者均随附。 Simplot先生从14岁开始，受过很少的教育，而母亲只有80美元，他因此成为了一个亿万富翁。他的大部分成功归功于在爱达荷州的轻薄火山土壤中生长得如此出色的罗斯伯特·伯班克（Russet Burbank），而众所周知的Spud先生从未忘记这笔债务，也没有拒绝过他的根源：直到他去世的那一天，他最喜欢的餐馆是麦当劳，在这里，他总是点炸薯条或马铃薯煎饼。rnSimplot先生的故事全是美国的，甚至还涉及一个小木屋。那是1910年一家人从爱荷华州搬到爱达荷州后，由他父亲建造的房子。然而，父亲却严厉，在成排的年轻杰克离开家后，他回到了Declo小镇。如果在他的宿舍里的老师们任职时间足够长，他们就会得到IOUS的酬劳。杰克用饲养孤羊筹集的资金，以美元的50美分的价格购买了这些票据，并将其用作银行贷款的抵押品。那笔钱给他买了几百头猪，他用土豆皮和野马的肉制成的will丝使猪肥了：“我开枪打了他们，把皮s了一下，然后自己煮了，”他说。他以7800美元的价格卖掉了这头猪。

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    《The economist》 |2008年第8584期|109|共1页
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