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看到这个讲价的开头真是笑死了，德拉科太会装了，结果被反将一军，哈哈，德拉科好败面子：（另外又一次证明了”中国制造“在国外，真是便宜的代名词，而外国的产品进入中国，则相反。悲惨的现实。）

“How much for this bowl?”

“Fifty pounds,” called Draco. He stowed his wand in the special pocket sewn into his sleeve and smoothed down the bump. 

“I’ll give you thirty.”

“Fifty,” insisted Draco. He wafted air around his perspiring face, then thought to blot the sweat with his cuff.

“Thirty-five, and that’s my last offer.” 

“It’s fifty or nothing,” said Draco, emerging from behind the dresser and leaning sideways against it. 

The man who was fingering an ornate pewter bowl didn’t look around. His numerous jewelled rings caught the fire of the setting sun, which blazed in through the dusty front windows. The points of light created tiny coronas of blindness and left Draco blinking back white spots.

“How about if I offered you dinner for two at Kali’s?”

“Then it’d definitely be fifty, plus a ten pound surcharge for unwarranted presumption.” Draco tried not to let the laughter brimming on lips betray his customary expression of the ferocious, cut-throat bargainer. 

“Ah, you slay me,” sighed the man. He set down the bowl with exaggerated care. “Tell me what this piece of crap does to deserve such an inflated price, and maybe I’ll take it off your delicate hands.”

“That was found in the temple of a king, I’ll have you know,” protested Draco. He moved to stand at the shoulder of the man, relishing the fact that he started at Draco’s nearness. “Just look at that wonderful workmanship, the intricacy of the detail on the rim designs. Even the slight wave of the cupola shows its uniqueness -- and there’s a rare seal of the craftsman on the base.”

The man turned the bowl over. “Ah! I see it.”

“You do?” Draco was flummoxed. “I mean, of course you do. I am still studying it to see if it is an eagle or a sphinx, for the latter will greatly increase its value. I tell you, it will be a wrench to let you have it. I am not sure that I could let it go.”

“I think you’re mistaken about the sphinx,” said the man. “I think what it says is ‘made in China.’”

“Bastard!” Draco slapped him on the shoulder.

“Tell you what.” The man withdrew a purse from his pocket with a rasp of silk. “I’ll buy if from you anyway. My wife needs a new fruit bowl. I’ll give you twenty-five pounds.”

“Thirty and it’s yours.”

“Done.” The man slid two fingers into the neck of his purse and, with exaggerated care, counted out the money into Draco’s damp palm. 

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简单说一下内容：有个客人进了德拉科的店子看中一个碗（我觉得他是看中德拉科而不是看中碗），就问那碗多少钱，德拉科说要50英镑，那客人的说30行不行，德拉科一口咬定要50，之后客人退了一步，说最多他能出35英镑，但德拉科还是不肯让步，于是客人就说如果他请德拉科去餐馆吃晚餐呢？

德拉科说还是要50英镑，而且因为他的某种不明意图还得另外加钱。于是客人就妥协，让德拉科介绍一下这碗为什么值这么多钱。

德拉科开始从里到外介绍碗工艺的精细繁复，说它是在一个国王宫殿里找到的，还说它的底部有个印章，就让客人看了那个章。

客人说他知道这个章，于是德拉科就很怀疑地说，他研究了这个章，觉得它不是个鹰就是个斯芬克斯，并说如果是后者的话那这碗的价格会更高，他真不愿意那这碗卖给客人。

于是客人就说，其实那里写的是“中国制造”......

德拉科大骂了一句，决定以30英镑的价格买给他......