Most people have to reach for the same credit card when standing at a till paying for purchases in a store. But Walter Cavanagh from California can choose to use one of the 1,497 cards that he owns, which are worth $1.7m, and make him a record breaker.
大部分人在商店柜台结账的时候都使用同一张信用卡，但是来自美国加利福尼亚的沃尔特·卡瓦纳可以从他1497张信用卡中任选一张结账。这些信用卡总额度为170万美元,这也使得他成为了打破纪录的人。
Walter Cavanagh, 73, from Santa Clara, started collecting the cards as a bet with a friend in the 1960s to see who could collect the most in the space of a year.
沃尔特·卡瓦纳今年73岁，来自圣克拉拉市。他收集信用卡的习惯源自上世纪60年代跟一位朋友的赌注，他跟朋友打赌看在一年之内谁收集的信用卡多。
He quickly acquired a stash of 143 and even collected a number of limited edition cards such as a sterling silver card from Mapes Hotel.
之后他很快就收集到了143张信用卡，甚至他还收集到了许多诸如梅普斯酒店的纯银卡之类的限量版信用卡。

In 1971, a friend contact Guinness World Records, and he was named as the man with the most credit cards.
在1971年，他的一个朋友联系到了吉尼斯世界纪录，于是他也得到了世界上拥有最多信用卡的人这一称号。
And every year since, he has been in the record books as he continued his collection, as he was determined to stay as the world record holder.
从此之后，为了下决心保持住这个记录，他就一直在收集信用卡。
His credit score is nearly perfect, as he actually only uses one card and pays it off monthly.
值得一提的是，沃尔特的信用分数近乎完美，因为他只用其中的一张卡，而且每月都会还清。