Lesson 32 A lost ship

This was later confirmed by naval official at the Ministry of Defiance after the Elkor had returned home.

這一說法在“埃爾科”號返航后得到的國防部一位海軍官員的證實。

Lesson 32 A lost ship

All the items that were found were sent to the War Museum.

那次打撈到的所有物品均被送往軍事博物館。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong.

我們大家都有過事事不順心的日子。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control.

一天開始時，可能還不錯，但突然間似乎一切都失去了控制。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment.

情況經常是這樣的，許許多多的事情都偏偏趕在同一時刻出問題，

Lesson 33 A day t remember

It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions.

好像是一件無關緊要的小事引起了一連串的連鎖反應。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time.

假設你在做飯，同時又在照看孩子。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes.

這時電話鈴響了。它預示著一連串意想不到的災難的來臨。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process.

就在你接電話時，孩子把桌布從桌子上扯下來，將家中最好的陶瓷餐具半數摔碎，同時也弄傷了他自己。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc.

你急急忙忙掛上電話，趕去照看孩子和餐具。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt.

這時，飯又燒糊了。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.

好像這一切還不足以使你急得掉淚，你的丈夫接著回來了，事先沒打招呼就帶來3個客人吃飯。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney.

就像許多人最近在悉尼郊區帕拉馬塔發現的那樣，有時亂子會鬧得很大。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue.

一天傍晚交通最擁擠時，一輛汽車撞上前面一輛汽車，兩個司機爭吵起來。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner.

緊跟其后的一輛車上的司機碰巧是個初學者，

Lesson 33 A day t remember

She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car.

她一驚之下突然把車停了下來。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

This made the driver following her brake hard.

她這一停使得跟在后頭的司機也來個急剎車。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake.

司機妻子正坐在他身邊，手里托著塊大蛋糕。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road.

她往前一沖，蛋糕從擋風玻璃飛了出去掉到馬路上。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden.

此時，一輛卡車正好從后邊開到那輛汽車邊上，司機看見一塊蛋糕從天而降，緊急剎車。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road.

卡車上裝著空啤酒瓶。成百只瓶子順勢從卡車后面滑出車外落在馬路上。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

This led to yet another angry argument.

這又引起一場唇槍舌劍的爭吵。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind.

與此同時，后面的車輛排成了長龍，

Lesson 33 A day t remember

It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again.

警察花了將近一個小時才使車輛又開起來。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles.

在這段時間里，卡車司機不得不清掃那幾百只破瓶子。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake.

只有兩只野狗從這一片混亂中得到好處，它們貪婪地吃掉了剩下的蛋糕。

Lesson 33 A day t remember

It was just one of those days!

這就是事事不順心的那么一天！

Lesson 34 A happy discovery

Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people.

古玩店對許多人來說有一種特殊的魅力。

Lesson 34 A happy discovery

The more expensive kind of antique shop where rare objects are beautifully displayed in glass cases to keep them free from dust is usually a forbidding place.

高檔一點的古玩店為了防塵，把文物漂亮地陳列在玻璃柜子里，那里往往令人望而卻步。

Lesson 34 A happy discovery

But no one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop.

而對不太裝腔作勢的古玩店，無論是誰都不用壯著膽子才敢往里進。