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P.T. 巴纳姆:奋斗与胜利·补录 654

P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导

Immediately after adjournment that afternoon, I took the cars for Bridgeport, spending the night quietly at home, and the following morning I went to New York to see the ruins of my Museum, and to learn the full extent of the disaster. When I arrived at the scene of the calamity and saw nothing but the smouldering debris of what a few hours before was the American Museum, the sight was sad indeed. Here were destroyed, almost in a breath, the accumulated results of many years of incessant toil, my own and my predecessors, in gathering from every quarter of the globe myriads of curious productions of nature and art--an assemblage of rarities which a half million of dollars could not restore, and a quarter of a century could not collect. In addition to these there were many Revolutionary relics and other links in our national history which never could be duplicated. Not a thousand dollars worth of the entire property was saved; the destruction was complete; the loss was irreparable, and the total amount of insurance was but forty thousand dollars.

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定位:Additional excerpt 654 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

巴纳姆当天下午就坐火车回布里奇波特,在家安静过夜,第二天去纽约看博物馆废墟。他看到只剩冒烟的残骸,痛心不已:多年辛劳收集的无数自然与艺术珍品,半百万美元也换不回,四分之一世纪也集不齐;还有独立战争文物等国家历史见证,无法复制。全部财产救回的不到一千美元,损失不可弥补,保险却只有四万。核心是:有些损失无法用钱衡量,事前充分保险和分散风险很重要。

上下文

巴纳姆的美国博物馆火灾后,他在自传中描述损失之惨重,强调许多藏品独一无二。

今日一问

你有没有为那些无法用钱衡量的东西(如健康、关系、回忆)做过风险防范?

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