讲解

Today’s key word is Biscuit
Biscuit 饼干
A biscuit is a small flat cake that is crisp and usually sweet.

Actually, there are different ways to say 饼干。

Biscuit 是不列颠人民对饼干的称呼。我们更常用的是美国的叫法cookies。Cracker也可以用来说饼干。

今天，我们来讲一块“出身”困苦，逆袭成名的饼干。
Long long time ago, there is a cracker. It was on the same ship with famous Jack and Rose the Titanic.
我们都知道，泰坦尼克号邮轮在1912年处女航的时候撞冰山而沉没。

那这块Biscuit是怎么存活下来的呢？

话说，this plain biscuit was part of a survival kit(救生包) on one of the lifeboats.这块生来为救人命的饼干，并没有被当时获救的人们吃掉。
The biscuit was saved by James Fenwick, a passenger on the Carpathia(卡帕西亚号) which picked up Titanic survivors（幸存者）.He kept it in an envelope（信封） complete with original notation（原装说明）“Pilot biscuit from Titanic lifeboat April 1912”.

在经历了沉船的悲剧之后，这位饼干成功逆袭成史上最贵的biscuit。

It was sold for £15,000。（折合成人民币将近15万。）And it was bought by a collector in Greece.拍卖者说：“It is incredible that this biscuit has survived such a dramatic event - the sinking of the world’s largest ocean liner - costing 1,500 lives.”

So Would you pay £15,000 for a 100-year-old biscuit?