摘要
选文《珍珠和珠商》（The Pearl and the Deale脂）节选自美国著名作家斯科特·奥德尔（Scott O’Dell）的小说《黑珍珠》（The Black Pearl）。奥德尔获得过众多文学奖项，他的代表作之一《黑珍珠》讲述的是海上男孩拉蒙·萨拉查（Ramon Salazar）成长中经历的一个传奇故事。
There are four pearl dealers in our town of La Paz, as I have said, not counting Salazar and Son. About a week after my father had cut the pearl, the four men came to our home. At first my father had talked about taking the great pearl to Mexico City, but he had done this once before with a rare pearl and the long trip had been a failure because the dealers there are very smart. So we decided to sell the Pearl of Heaven to the dealers in the money we could ask.
