DEREK： You won't believe what just happened.

KELLY： What？

DEREK： I went down to change some money， right？

KELLY： Yes. We need some. How much did you change？

DEREK： I wanted to change around 5000 dollars. And you know the exchange rate.

KELLY： Yes， it's about 35 pesos for every Taiwan dollar， right？

DEREK： Not today.

KELLY： What do you mean？

DEREK： I went into the bank with my money， and I looked at the exchange board.

At first I couldn't believe it. I thought I was reading the board wrong or something.

KELLY： Why？

DEREK： Because the board said 60 pesos for every Taiwan dollar.

KELLY： Sixty？ That's too much. How can that be？

DEREK： I thought it was wrong too. It didn't make sense.

KELLY： Just two days ago it was 35. How can it be 60？

DEREK： So， I went up to the teller and started to exchange the money. And it's true.

They really gave me sixty pesos for the dollar.

KELLY： That's amazing！ Really？ How could it change so much in two days？

DEREK： I tried to ask the bank teller why it changed，

but she didn't speak English well enough.

So I decided to go to the magazine shop. The one around the corner.

And I bought an American newspaper.

KELLY： What happened？

DEREK： It seems that yesterday the Mexican government declared

it wouldn't pay back the loans it got from the World Bank.

The government declared a default on the loans.

KELLY： That's serious.

DEREK： I know. The economy here is having serious problems.

But because the government declared a default， the currency value went way down.

KELLY： So now Mexican pesos are worth about half as much.

DEREK： Yes， it's an amazing drop.

KELLY： Wow. I feel sorry for the Mexicans. But it's good for us.

DEREK： Yes， it's very good. We suddenly have twice as much money to spend here.

Our hotel is now half as expensive as when we got here！ Isn't that strange？

KELLY： Yes， and you know what？

DEREK： What？

KELLY： I don't really like this hotel that much.

So tonight， now that we are so rich，

tonight why don't we stay in the most expensive hotel in town？

DEREK： Why not？ We should do it. Because now we can afford it.

戴瑞克：你不會相信剛剛發(fā)生的事。

凱莉：什么事？

戴瑞克：我去樓下?lián)Q錢，對不對？

凱莉：對啊，我們需要一些，你換了多少？

戴瑞克：我想要換五千元左右，而且你很清楚匯率。

凱莉：是啊，大概是三十五披索等于一塊臺幣，對不對？

戴瑞克：今天不是。

凱莉：什么意思？

戴瑞克：我?guī)Я隋X去銀行，然后看著匯率表。

一開始，我真不敢相信，我想我讀錯了或什么的。

凱莉：為什么？

戴瑞克：因為匯率表上說六十披索等于一塊臺幣。

凱莉：六十？太多了吧，怎么會這樣呢？

戴瑞克：我也以為錯了，這樣不太合理。

凱莉：就在兩天前是三十五，怎么變成六十了呢？

戴瑞克：于是我走向出納員要求兌換錢，原來是真的。

他們真的讓我用一塊臺幣換六十披索。

凱莉：太神奇了！真的嗎？兩天內(nèi)怎么會改變這么多呢？

戴瑞克：我試著問銀行出納員為何匯率改了，

但是她的英文說得不太好。

所以我決定去雜志店，街角那家，

買了一份美國報紙。

凱莉：發(fā)生什么事了？

戴瑞克：好象昨天墨西哥政府宣告

不償還向世界銀行借的貸款，

他們宣稱不履行債務。

凱莉：那很嚴重喔！

戴瑞克：我知道，這兒的經(jīng)濟有很嚴重的問題，

但是因為政府宣稱不履行債務，幣值頓時跌落。

凱莉：所在現(xiàn)在墨西哥披索只值原來的一半。

戴瑞克：是啊，真驚人的下跌。

凱莉：哇，我真是替墨西哥人感到遺憾，但是這種情況對我們是有利的。

戴瑞克：是啊，蠻好的，我們突然有二倍的錢來花。

旅館費現(xiàn)在只有剛到時的一半貴，那不是很怪嗎？

凱莉：嗯，你知道嗎？

戴瑞克：什么？

凱莉：我不太喜歡這間旅館，

所以今晚，既然我們有錢了，

為什么不去住鎮(zhèn)上最貴的旅館？

戴瑞克：有何不可呢？我們應該的，因為現(xiàn)在我們可以付得起了。

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