大学英语精读预备1册 lesson 3
时间：2018-12-04 作者：英语课 分类：大学英语精读预备1册
At a Railway Station
Once, a long time ago, I went to a railway station. I planned to take the ninth train to New York and go on a journey with a friend. Many people were on the platform and they were pushing onto the long passenger train. It was already full. I asked the man at the booing office if I could have two tickets. He answered sharply 1, “no !” I felt hurt. It was important for me to have the tickets.
I found a railway official and asked him if I could have a place some where in the sleeping-car, but he said sharply, “no! you can’t .the train is full. Don’t trouble me any more.”
I felt very hurt indeed. I said to my friend, “they talked to me like this because they don’t know who I am. If they knew…” but my friend said:
Don’t be foolish. Do you think it would help you to get a seat on the train? There are no empty seats.”
I went up to the same official and said very politely that my name was Mark Twain. But he only replied:
“I told you not to trouble me any more.”
I said to my friend: “he may not have heard my name.” But my friend said that official had heard my name quite clearly, but that he didn’t care, that was all.
Just then I noticed a young porter 2 in a sleeping-car was looking at me. He breathed something in the train conductor 3’s ear, and the conductor came over to me, removed his cap and said very politely.
“Can I help you, sir? Do you want a place in a sleeping-car?”
“Yes , I certainly do.” I said.
The porter took our case and we got in to the sleeping-car. The porter saw that we were comfortably settled 4 in our places. Then he said, “Now, is anything you want, sir?”
When the porter left I smiled at my friend and said: “well, what do you say now?”
“Well,” He said, “you were right, I’m sorry I said all those things to you on the platform. I was foolish, not you. I’m glad I came here with you.”
Just then the porter came to the door again and said:
“Oh, sir, I recognized you at once when I saw you. And I told the conductor so.”
“Really,” I said, and I gave him twice as much as I usually give to a porter. Who am I then?”
“You are Mr. McClellan, of course, the Mayor 6 of New York,” he said and disappeared.
- The plane dived sharply and rose again.飞机猛然俯冲而后又拉了起来。
- Demand for personal computers has risen sharply.对个人电脑的需求急剧增长。
- The hotel porter will help you.旅馆的门童可以帮你的忙。
- The porter and I looked at each other and smiled.我和脚夫微笑着你看着我，我看着你。
- The conductor handed the sick man out of the bus.售票员扶病人下公共汽车。
- Copper is a good conductor of heat.铜是热的良导体。
- The dispute was settled without acrimony. 没有唇枪舌剑，这场纠纷就解决了。
- a settled way of life 安定的生活方式