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Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons2. Yesterday, a pigeon1 carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests4 for spare parts and other urgent5 messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private‘telephone’service.
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    課文注釋
    1 from Silbury:介詞from作“距……”“離……”講,常與away連用。如: It is far (away) from here. 離這里很遠(yuǎn)。
    2 up to now (=up till now), 到現(xiàn)在為止;作時(shí)間狀語,句子的時(shí)態(tài)多用現(xiàn)在完成時(shí)。
    3 a great many, 許多的,其中g(shù)reat表示數(shù)量很大;只能同可數(shù)名詞的復(fù)數(shù)連用。
    參考譯文
    詹姆斯·斯科特先生在錫爾伯里有一個(gè)汽車修理部,現(xiàn)在他剛在平赫斯特買了另一個(gè)汽車修理部。平赫斯特離錫爾伯里只有5英里,但詹姆斯·斯科特先生未能為他新的汽車修理部搞到一部電話機(jī),所以他買了12只鴿子。昨天,一只鴿子把第一封信從平赫斯特帶到錫爾伯里。這只鳥只用了3分鐘就飛完了全程。到目前為止,斯科特先生從一個(gè)汽車修理部向另一個(gè)發(fā)送了大量索取備件的信件和其他緊急函件。就這樣,他開始了自己的私人“電話”業(yè)務(wù)。