【正文】 半小時后，當他從屋里出來時，他驚奇地發(fā)現(xiàn)小黑羔羊全身幾乎都變成白色。迪米特里為自己的魯莽而感到不好意思，向阿列科道了歉，說是錯怪了他。阿列科不承認，并把迪米特里領進院子。把失竊的事告訴幾個朋友后，迪米特里發(fā)出他的鄰居阿列科家突然多了一只小羔羊。 迪米特里從地里回來，妻子把情況跟他一說，他馬上出去找偷羔羊的人?？墒牵惶焱砩?，那只小羔羊失蹤了。瑪麗最珍貴的財產(chǎn)之一就是丈夫送給她的一只白色小羔羊。s house until the rain stopped. When he went outside half an hour later, he was astonished to find that the little black lamb was almost white. Its wool, which had been dyed black, had been washed clean by the rain ! s prize possessions was a little white lamb which her husband had given her. She kept it tied to a tree in a field during the day and went to fetch it every evening. One evening, however, the lamb was missing. The rope had been cut, so it was obvious that the lamb had been stolen. When Dimitri came in from the fields, his wife told him what had happened. Dimitri at once set out to find the thief. He knew it would not prove difficult in such a small village. After telling several of his friends about the theft, Dimitri found out that his neighbour, Aleko, had suddenly acquired a new lamb. Dimitri immediately went to Aleko39。不過，此事并沒使喬治過于傷心，因為糖果店老板娘聽說了他遇到的麻煩后，賞給他一大盒巧克力。這時在他周圍上了許多人，一位女士在喬治胳膊上抹了肥皂，黃油，但喬治的胳膊仍然卡得緊緊的。喬治脫掉外套，卷起袖子，將右胳膊伸進了陰溝蓋。昨天，我給了他50便士讓存起來，卻拿這錢給自己買了50便士的麻煩。 我的外甥喬治有一個儲蓄罐，但總是空空的。但是能把儲蓄罐裝滿的只有屈指可數(shù)的幾個特別節(jié)儉的孩子。對于有些孩子來說，少量的錢可以花很長一段時間。孩子們總是喜歡得到一些零花錢。,意大利人還是把他視作某種英雄。如果交款不及時,歹徒們就會很快搗毀他的商店,保護金,:人們情愿拿出大筆的錢,也不愿畢生的心血毀于歹徒之手. 600年前,在佛羅倫薩附近駐扎下來,霍克伍德把他的士兵雇傭給愿給他出高價的君主。. is not a modern crime. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.Six hundred years ago, Sir John Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence. He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. Whenever the Italian citystates were at war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a citystate and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them. Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way. In spite of this, the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero. When he died at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral and had a picture painted which was dedicated to the memory of 39。 If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop. Obtaining 39。 Lesson14 A noble gangsterThere was a time when the owners of shop and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for39。那人大叫了一聲，驚退了幾步。理查茲夫人這才想到一定是供電局來人查電表了。她聽見前門被打開，走廊里響起重重的腳步聲。她曾告訴過面包師，如果她不去開門，他可直接進門，把面包放在廚房的桌上。 理查茲夫人剛剛走進餐廳，前門就傳來敲門聲。盡管化裝服僅由一個被單制成，卻十分逼真。她打算裝扮成鬼的模樣。理查茲夫人等丈夫上班走后，把孩子送去上學，然后來到樓上自己的臥室。s only me39。這二位不得不離開那個荒島時，還真的感到遺憾呢！ Lesson13 It’s only meAfter her husband had gone to work, Mrs Richards sent her children to school and went upstairs to her bedroom. She was too excited to do any housework that morning, for in the evening she would be going to a fancy dress party with her husband. She intended to dress up as a ghost and as she had made her costume the night before, she was impatient to try it on. Though the costume consisted only of a sheet, it was very effective. After putting it on, Mrs Richards went downstairs. She wanted to find out whether it would be fortable to wear. Just as Mrs Richards was entering the diningroom, there was a knock on the front door. She knew that it must be the baker. She had told him to e straight in if ever she failed to open the door and to leave the bread on the kitchen table. Not wanting to frighten the poor man, Mrs Richards quickly hid in the small storeroom under the stairs. She heard the front door open and heavy footsteps in the hall. Suddenly the door of the storeroom was opened and a man entered. Mrs Richards realized that it must be the man from the Electricity Board who had e to read the meter. She tried to explain the situation, saying39。他們天天捕捉龍蝦和魚，正如其中一位所說，吃得“像國王一樣好”。他們用像皮艇蓄積雨水。然后在加勒比海上劃行了幾英里，到了一座珊瑚島上。他們駕著一條嚴重損壞的小船從維爾京群島阿密修理。但很少有人能有機會去弄個究竟。另一種想法恰恰相反，認為荒島生活很可怕，要么餓死，要么像魯濱孫那樣，天天盼船來，卻總沒見船影。在那里，生活簡單又美好。. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave. 我們許多人對于荒島生活有一種不切實際的想法。 Lesson12 Life on a desert islandMost of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good.Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work. The other side of the picture is quite the opposite. Life on a desert island is wretched. You either starve to death or live like Robinson Crusoe, waiting for a boat which never es. Perhaps there is an element of truth in both these pictures, but few of us have had the opportunity to find out. Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired. During the journey, their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and tins of beer and rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem. The men collected rainwater in the rubber dinghy. As they had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They caught lobster and fish every day, and, as one of them put it 39。一股怪味襲來，使他相信了我說的真話。” “你就聞一聞吧！”我催促說。” “不，這不是香水，”我說，“是發(fā)膠。他在我的箱底發(fā)現(xiàn)了一只小瓶，高興地一把抓了起來。我相信那箱子再也關(guān)不上了。 那位官員十分仔細地把箱子檢查了一遍。 “請打開這只手提箱好嗎？” “好的。 “沒有。最近一次，我也出國歸來，碰上一位特別好管閑事的年輕海關(guān)官員，他顯然把我當成走私犯。但是，當你通過綠色通道，沒有任何東西需要申報時，他們?nèi)钥梢詳r住你。 I said encouragingly.The Officer unscrewed the cap and put the