【正文】 sers in the washing machine and then remembered there was a large bank note in your back pocket？ When you rescued your trousers， did note in your back pocket？ When you rescued your trousers， did you find the note was whiter than white？ People who live in Britain needn39。但他已無法抓住那些竊賊了。這場搶劫只持續(xù)了3分鐘，因為竊賊爭先恐后地爬上轎車，以驚人的速度開跑了。他與店員動手向窗外投擲家具，椅子，桌子飛落花流水在拱廊街上。他們用鐵棒把商店櫥窗的玻璃砸碎。寧靜突然被打破，一輛大轎車亮著前燈，響著喇叭，呼嘯著沖進了拱廊街，在珠寶店門口停了下來。鉆石項鏈、戒指漂亮地陳列在黑色絲絨上面。珠寶店主泰勒先生正在欣賞新布置的櫥窗。s. One man stayed at the wheel while two others with black stocking over their faces jumped out and smashed the window of the shop with iron bars. While this was going on， Mr. Taylor was upstairs. He and his staff began throwing furniture out of the window. Chairs and tables went flying into the arcade. One of the thieves was struck by a heavy statue， but he was too busy helping himself to diamonds to notice any pain. The raid was all over in three minutes， for the men scrambled back into the car and it moved off at a fantastic speed. Just as it was leaving， Mr. Taylor rushed out and ran after it throwing ashtrays and vases， but it was impossible to stop the thieves. They had got away with thousands of pounds worth of diamonds.New words and expressions 生詞和短語smashandgrab arcade （兩旁常設(shè)商店）Piccadilly jewellery （總稱）necklace ring background velvet ，絲絨headlight n.（汽車等）前燈 blare ，吼叫staff raid n. 偷襲scramble n. 偷襲 scramble v. 爬行fantastic adj. 非常大的 ashtray n. 煙灰缸參考譯文皮卡迪利大街附近的一條著名拱廊街道上，幾家高檔商店剛剛開始營業(yè)。Lesson 6 Smashandgrab砸櫥窗搶劫The expensive shops in a famous near Piccadilly were just opening. At this time of the morning， the arcade was almost empty. Mr. Taylor， the owner of a jewellery shop was admiring a new display. Two of his assistants had been working busily since eight o39。不過，他終于獲準發(fā)回了一份傳真。一周之后，編輯終于接到記者的傳真。但記者還是沒有回復。他給記者先后發(fā)去兩份傳真，但對方毫無反應?！本庉嬃⒓唇o那位記者發(fā)去傳真，要求他核實一下臺階的確切數(shù)字和圍墻的高度。稿子寄來后，編輯看第一句話就拒絕予以發(fā)表。s palace.New words and expressions 生詞和短語editor extreme statistics journalist president palace ；宏偉的住宅publish fax impatient fire originally ，原先，從前參考譯文報刊雜志的編輯常常為了向讀者提供成立一些關(guān)緊要的事實和統(tǒng)計數(shù)字而走向極端。s palace39。s palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived， the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began： 39。Lesson 5 The facts確切數(shù)字What was the consequence of the editor39。從此，艾爾弗可以一天到晚穿西服了。他將來掙的錢只有他現(xiàn)在的一半。兩年多以來，艾爾弗一直這樣，他的同事也為他保守秘密。每天早晨，他穿上一身漂亮的黑色西裝離家上班，然后換上工作服，當8個小時清潔工。艾爾弗結(jié)婚時，感到非常難為情，而沒有將自己的職業(yè)告訴妻子。而這常常會引起種種奇怪的現(xiàn)象，在埃爾斯米爾公司當清潔工的艾爾弗雷德。坐辦公室的之所以常常被稱作“白領(lǐng)工人”，就是因為他們通常是穿著硬領(lǐng)白襯衫，系著領(lǐng)帶去上班。Alf39。Mr. Bloggs39。 for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work. Such is human nature， that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of being whitecollar workers. This can give rise to curious situations， as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation. When he got married， Alf was too embarrassed to say anything to his wife about his job. He simply told her that he worked for the Corporation. Every morning， he left home dressed in a smart black suit. He then changed into overalls and spent the next eight hours as a dustman. Before returning home at night. He took a shower and changed back into his suit. Alf did this for over two years and his fellow dustmen kept his secret Alf39。Lesson 4 The double life of Alfred Bloggs阿爾弗雷德。身穿一條拖地長裙，盡管上了年紀，但體態(tài)確實優(yōu)美?？脊殴ぷ髡甙堰@些碎片重新拼裝起來后，驚奇地發(fā)現(xiàn)那位女神原來是一位相貌十分摩登的女郎。她的腦袋一定是在古希臘羅馬時代就為人所發(fā)現(xiàn)，并受到精心的保護。每一尊雕像代表一位女神，而且一度上過色?？脊殴ぷ髡呖疾斓倪@座廟宇從公元前15世紀直到羅馬時代一直是祭祀祈禱的場所。里面房間很大，墻壁裝飾華麗。依里尼海角的一座古城里考察了一座廟宇。s missing head happened to be among remains of the fifth century . This head must have been found in Classical times and carefully preserved. It was very old and precious even then. When the archaeologists reconstructed the fragments， they were amazed to find that the goddess turned out to be a very modernlooking woman. She stood three feet high and her hands rested on her hips. She was wearing a fulllength skirt which swept the ground. Despite her great age， she was very graceful indeed， but， so far， the archaeologists have been unable to discover her identity.New words and expressions 生詞和短語goddess（tile） archaeologist Aegean explore ，勘探 promontory civilization