Lesson 5 No wrong numbers無(wú)錯(cuò)號(hào)之虞
First listen and then answer the question.
聽(tīng)錄音，然后回答以下問(wèn)題。
What does 'No wrong numbers' mean?
Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.
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。
Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons.
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。
Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
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(niǎo)只用了3分鐘就飛完了全程。
Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.
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。
In this way, he has begun his own private‘telephone’service.
就這樣，他開(kāi)始了自己的私人“電話”業(yè)務(wù)。
New words and expressions 生詞和短語(yǔ)
pigeon
n. 鴿子
message
n. 信息
cover
v. 越過(guò)
distance
n. 距離
request
n. 要求，請(qǐng)求
spare part
n.備件
service
n. 業(yè)務(wù)，服務(wù)
Notes on the text課文注釋
1 from Silbury:介詞from作“距…”、“離...”講，常與away連用。如:
It is far laway) 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(yǔ)，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。