英国8岁富翁：网上卖弹球身价愈百万_BEC初级作文

英国8岁富翁：网上卖弹球身价愈百万

The excitable entrepreneur kick-started his way to becoming a millionaire when he innocently began trading marbles with friends in the playground. But when some older kids took all his stock, Harli turned to the bank of mum to buy him some more on the net. And after they struggled to find anywhere dedicated to selling Harli's favourite toy, he begged his mum, Tina, to let him start his own site. Within months of launching, Tina was shocked to see orders flooding in - with Harli handling them all on his own.

这位白手起家的百万富翁最初也只是在操场上和朋友们买卖弹球。但后来一些大一点的孩子抢走了他的弹球后，他只得向妈妈求助，去网上买。在母子俩千辛万苦找了很久之后，哈里央求妈妈蒂娜给他建立一个自己的网站。网站开业后几个月，蒂娜就惊奇地发现有大把大把的订单进来，而网站一直只有哈里一个人在打理。

'My thinking was it would be a good way to teach Harli some great life skills and show him responsibility. I never thought it would become so popular - we are struggling to cope with the number of orders at times.'

妈妈蒂娜说，“我当时就是想，这可以给哈里好好上一课，教会他做事要有担当。我从没想过网站的生意会那么好，我们有时处理订单都忙不过来。”

She added: 'As a boss he is very amenable and has his own ideas of how to do things. He is fiercely ambitious and is very determined and outgoing. Sometimes his ideas are so grand we have to scale them back a bit. But his dream is still to own Britain's biggest marble shop and open stores around the world.’