2024年5月28日发(作者:)

Lesson 5 No wrong numbers

无错号之虞

(不会拨错号)

Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another

garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get

a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a

pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the

distance in three minutes. Up to now, has sent a great many requests for

spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way,

he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.

New words and expressions 生词和短语

pigeon n. 鸽子 message n. 信息 cover v. 越过 distance n. 距离

request n. 要求,请求 spare part 备件 service n. 业务,服务

参考译文

詹姆斯.斯科特先生在锡尔伯里有一个汽车修理部,现在他刚在平赫斯特买了另一个汽

车修理部。平赫斯特离锡尔伯里只有5英里,但詹姆斯.斯科特先生未能为他新的汽车修理

部搞到一部电话机,所以他买了12只鸽子。昨天,一只鸽子把第一封信从平赫特带到锡

尔伯里。这只鸟只用了3分钟就飞完了全程。到目前为止,斯科特先生从一个汽车修理部

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向另一个发送了大量索取备件的信件和其他紧急函件。就这样,他开始自己的私人“电话”

业务。

1. Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought

another garage in Pinhurst. 詹姆斯.斯科特先生在锡尔伯里有一个汽车修理部,现在他

刚在平赫斯特买了另一个汽车修理部。

1) garage ['gærɑ:ʒ] n.

1. 停车房;车库

e.g. 地下停车库 an underground garage

2. (兼营汽车销售、修理及加油的) 汽车修理厂

2. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a

telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. 平赫斯特

离锡尔伯里只有5英里,但詹姆斯.斯科特先生未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到一部电话机,

所以他买了12只鸽子。

1) 这句话由3个部分组成。but引导的句子与前面的句子为并列关系,so引导的句

子表示结果。

2) from在这里表示距离上相隔,译为“离”、“从”等:

e.g. 学校离我家有一英里。The school is a mile (away) from my house.

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