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Lesson 5 No wrong number ⽆错误号码
课⽂内容：
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.
Notes on the text
课⽂注释
1 from Silbury：介词from作“距……”“离……”讲，常与away连⽤。如： It is far (away) from here. 离这⾥很远。
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2 up to now (=up till now), 到现在为⽌；作时间状语，句⼦的时态多⽤现在完成时。
3 a great many, 许多的，其中great表⽰数量很⼤；只能同可数名词的复数连⽤。
本⽂参考译⽂
詹姆斯·斯科特先⽣在锡尔伯⾥有⼀个汽车修理部，现在他刚在平赫斯特买了另⼀个汽车修理部。平赫斯特离锡尔伯⾥只有5英⾥，但詹姆斯·斯科特先⽣未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到⼀部电话机，所以他买了12只鸽⼦。昨天，⼀只鸽⼦把第⼀封信从平赫斯特带到锡尔伯⾥。这只鸟只⽤了3分钟就飞完了全程。到⽬前为⽌，斯科特先⽣从⼀个汽车修理部向另⼀个发送了⼤量索取备件的信件和其他紧急函件。就这样，他开始了⾃⼰的私⼈“电话”业务。