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 Lesson 33
 我们大家都有过事事不顺心的日子。一天开始时，可能还不错，但突然间似乎一切都失去了控制。情况经常是这样的，
-许许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题，好像是一件无关紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。
+许许多多的事情都偏偏赶在同一时刻出问题，好像是一件无关紧要的小事引起了一连串的连锁反应。假设你在
+做饭，同时又在照看孩子。这是电话铃响了。它预示着一连串意想不到的灾难的来临。就在你接电话时，孩子把桌布
+从桌子上扯下来，将家中最好的陶瓷餐具半数摔碎，同时也弄伤了他自己。你急急忙忙挂上电话，赶去照看孩子和餐具。
+这时，饭又烧糊了。好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来了，事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。
+就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区。。发现的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。一天傍晚交通最拥挤时，一辆汽车撞上前面
+一辆汽车，两个司机争吵起来。紧跟其后的一辆车的司机碰巧是个初学者，她一惊之下突然把车停了下来。她
+这一停使得跟在后台的司机也来个急刹车。司机妻子正坐在他身边，手里托着块大蛋糕。她往前一冲，蛋糕从挡风玻璃
+飞了出去掉到马路上。此时，一辆卡车正好从后边开到那辆汽车边上，司机看见一块蛋糕从天而降，紧急刹车。
 
 We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but 
 suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great 
 number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single 
-unimportant event set up a chain of reactions.
+unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal 
+and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the 
+prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby 
+pull the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in 
+the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets 
+burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly 
+bringing three guests to dinner.
+Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a 
+suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began 
+to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got 
+into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting 
+beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the 
+windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was 
+drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer 
+bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet 
+another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to 
+get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of 
+broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily 
+devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!
 
 Lesson 34
 古玩店对许多人来说有一种特殊的魅力。高档一点的古玩店为了防尘，把文物漂亮地陈列在玻璃柜子里，那里往往