1An argument used by John Morton in demanding gifts for the royal treasury: if a man lived well he was obviously rich and if he lived frugally then he must have savings.
莫顿之叉（莫顿为亨利七世强征赋税的论据：生活优裕者显然有钱纳税，生活节俭者必有积蓄可纳税）
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Allow me to introduce you to Morton's Fork, with which you may not be acquainted.
But he is remembered by English schoolboys as the author of Morton's Fork, which worked like this.
The King employed the bishop as one of his most efficient tax collectors; he was the Morton of Morton's fork.
1.1A dilemma, especially one in which both choices are equally undesirable.