93.A Talk on the Phone
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：英汉幽默故事选读
I teach computer courses, and my students often call me at home with questions. One morning I was on the phone, explaining in computer language the solution to a problem, while a repairman was fixing my refrigerator. After an endless stream of "C colon 1, back- slash 2, greater than, cd, backslash, DOS, 0 colon" and so on, I hung up and found the repairman staring at me. "Lady," he asked, are you a spy 3?"
Notes:
(1) computer language 计算机语言
(2) refrigerator n. 冰箱
(3) backslash n. 回车
(4) greater than大于号
(5) DOS 计算机语言中的DOS处理
Exercises:
根据短文回答下列问题：
① What does the teacher teach?
② With what do students call her at home?
③ Who was in the teacher's house when she was on the phone?
④ Was it a long talk?
⑤ Why did the repairman think she was a spy?
93.电话交谈
我教计算机课程，我的学生经常打电话到我家问我问题。一天早晨，我在电话里用计算机语言解释一个问题的答案，当时一个维修工正在给我修电冰箱。经过一连串的“C冒号，回车，大于号，CD，回车，DOS，C冒号”等等，我挂上电话发现那位维修工在盯着我。“女士，”他问，“你是个间谍吗？”
练习参考答案：
① She teaches computer courses.
② Questions.
③ A repairman.
④ Yes, it was.
⑤ Because the repairman didn't understand computer language.
- Here,too,the colon must be followed by a dash.这里也是一样，应当在冒号后加破折号。
- The colon is the locus of a large concentration of bacteria.结肠是大浓度的细菌所在地。
- The shop plans to slash fur prices after Spring Festival.该店计划在春节之后把皮货降价。
- Don't slash your horse in that cruel way.不要那样残忍地鞭打你的马。