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@@ -177,7 +177,48 @@ arms in despair, he readily accepted the pound I gave him. I felt especially ple
 wouderful bargain--until I got back to the ship. No matter how hard I tried, it was im-possible to fill 
 this beautiful pen with ink and to this day it has never written a signle word.
 
-Lesson 29
+Lesson 31
+真正古怪的人从不有意引人注意。他们不顾社会习俗，意识不到自己所作所为有什么特殊之处。他们总能赢得别人
+的喜爱与尊敬，因为他们给平淡单一的日常生活增添了色彩。
+是我们镇上最有名望的人之一。他是个精明能干、有钱的商人，但镇上大部分人对他生活中的
+这一个方面几乎一无所知。大家都管他叫。早在他去世前很久，他的古怪行为就成了传奇故事了。
+痛恨势利小人。尽管他有一辆豪华小轿车，但却很少使用，常常喜欢以步代车。即使大雨倾盆，他也总是拒绝
+带伞。一天，他遇上一场瓢泼大雨，淋得透湿。他走进一家高级商店，要为妻子买一块价值300英镑的手表，但店员
+见他浑身泥水的样子，竟不肯接待他。二话没说就走了。一会儿，他带着一个大布口袋回到店里。布袋很沉，
+他重重地把布袋扔在柜台上。店员让走开，他置之不理，并要求见经理。
+
+True eccentrics never deliberately set out to draw attention to themselves. They disregard 
+social conventions without being conscious that they are doing anything extraordinary. This 
+invariably wins them the love and respect of others, for they add colour to the dull routine of 
+everyday life.
+Up to the time of his death, Richard was one of the most notable figures in our town. He 
+was a shrewd and wealthy businessman, but most people in the town hardly knew anything about 
+this side of his life. He was known to us all as Dickie and his eccentricity had become 
+legendary long before he died.
+Dickie disliked snobs intensely. Though he owned a large car, he hardly ever used it, 
+preferring always to go on foot. Even when it was raining heavily, he refused to carry an umbrella. 
+One day, he walked into an expensive shop after having been caught in a particularly heavy shower.
+He wanted to buy a $300 watch for his wife, but he was in such a bedraggled condition that an 
+assistant refused to serve him. Dickie left the shop without a word and returned carrying a large 
+cloth bag. As it was extremely heavy, he dumped it on the counter. the assistant asked him to 
+leave, but Dickie paid no attention to him and requested to see the manager. Recognizing who the 
+customer was, the manager was most apologetic and reprimanded the assistant serverely. 
+When Dickie was given the watch, he presented the assistant with the cloth bag. It contained $300 
+in pennies. He insisted on the assistant's counting the money before he left -- 30,000 pennies in all!
+On another occasion, he invited a number of important critics to see his private collection of modern 
+paintings. This exhibition received a great deal of attention in the press, for though the pictures were 
+supposed to be the work of famous artists, they had in fact been painted by Dickie. It took him four 
+years to stage this elaborate joke simply to prove that critics do not always know what they are 
+talking about.
+
+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。
+
+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.