From ebf00859ed12307fcd294398256fed1f508df903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: libinbin106 Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 15:42:17 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] 31 --- TextProject/nce3text.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/TextProject/nce3text.txt b/TextProject/nce3text.txt index 2447f9f..c0ab34e 100644 --- a/TextProject/nce3text.txt +++ b/TextProject/nce3text.txt @@ -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. -- GitLab