05 · 无错号之虞
No wrong numbers
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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 pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon 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 requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.
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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 pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon 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 requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.
詹姆斯·斯科特先生在锡尔伯里有一家汽车修理厂，最近又在平赫斯特买了一家。 平赫斯特离锡尔伯里只有五英里，可新修理厂一直装不上电话，于是斯科特先生买了十二只鸽子。 昨天，一只鸽子第一次把消息从平赫斯特送到锡尔伯里，只用了三分钟就飞完了全程。 到现在，他已经靠鸽子在两家修理厂之间传递了许多配件需求和其他紧急消息。 就这样，他办起了自己的私人“电话”服务。
学完这一课
先沿这条线复述《无错号之虞》：又买一家车行 → 电话装不上 → 信鸽首次送信 → 两地日常联络 → 自己的电话服务。再借一个结构讲自己的事：用一句话说过去发生了什么，再补一句它现在造成的影响。
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