新西兰英语 223 $3.8 million dollars still missing

　　This story began six months ago and has not finished yet. In May, Leo Gao who had a petrol station in Rotorua, asked Westpac Bank to lend him $100,000 because his business was in financial trouble. A bank employee¹ made a mistake and put $10million in his bank account². The employee put the decimal³ point in the wrong place or added⁴ extra zeros to the figure. When Leo Gao found this money in his bank account, he, his girlfriend and her 7-year old daughter very quickly left New Zealand with most of the money and went to China. When the bank realized what had happened, it was too late: most of the money had gone.
Westpac have managed to get back $6.2m and they have sold four properties⁵ that Gao owned. Gao used some of the money at a casino in Macau so Westpac tried to get money from the casino but were not successful. The casino owners said that if a customer comes into their casino with a lot of money, they don’t ask where it came from. Westpac lost money taking the casino to court in Hong Kong.
New Zealand police are hoping that Chinese police will help them find the money and find Gao. However, there has been no success so far.

1 employee   

n.职员，员工，受雇人员

参考例句：

• Each employee received a like bonus.每个雇员都得到了相同数目的奖金。
• They brought around a new employee this morning.他们今天早晨请来了一位新雇员。

2 account   

n.叙述；帐目；帐户

参考例句：

• She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
• He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。

3 decimal   

adj.十进的，小数的，十进制的；n.小数

参考例句：

• He knows the decimal rules.他懂得十进制的用法。
• Britain converted to decimal currency on February 15th,1971.英国于1971年2月15日改用十进位币制。

4 added   

adj.更多的，附加的，额外的

参考例句：

• They have added a new scene at the beginning.在开头他们又增加了一场戏。
• The pop music added to our enjoyment of the film.片中的流行音乐使我们对这部电影更加喜爱。

5 properties   

房地产(property的名词复数)； 财产； 所有权； 特性

参考例句：

• the curative properties of herbs 药草治病的功效
• the therapeutic properties of herbs 草药的医疗效用