私人“電話”業(yè)務(wù)
Mr. James 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, Mr. Scott 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.
【課文翻譯】
詹姆斯·斯科特先生在錫爾伯里有一個(gè)汽車(chē)修理部，現(xiàn)在他剛在平赫斯特買(mǎi)了另一個(gè)汽車(chē)修理部。平赫斯特離錫爾伯里只有5英里，但詹姆斯·斯科特先生未能為他新的汽車(chē)修理部搞到一部電話機(jī)，所以他買(mǎi)了12只鴿子。昨天，一只鴿子把第一封信從平赫斯特帶到錫爾伯里。這只鳥(niǎo)只用了3分鐘就飛完了全程。到目前為止，斯科特先生從一個(gè)汽車(chē)修理部向另一個(gè)發(fā)送了大量索取備件的信件和其他緊急函件。就這樣，他開(kāi)始了自己的私人“電話”業(yè)務(wù)。
【生詞和短語(yǔ)】
pigeon n. 鴿子
message n. 信息
cover v. 越過(guò)
distance n. 距離
request n. 要求，請(qǐng)求
spare part 備件
service n. 業(yè)務(wù)，服務(wù)
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