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【篇一】第41期

Unusual Echoes

Once Mark Twain and two friends were sitting in a restaurant

One friend has just returned from a trip to Vermont.

The friend said that the air in the mountains of Vermont was very clear.

In many places

the echo of a voice came back five times stronger than the original voice.

The second friend said that was nothing.

In Colorado,where he lived,in many places

the echo of a voice spoken in the morning came back in the afternoon.

Mark Twain laughed, Then he said,

Listen!The echoes which you have told me about are very unusual.

But in a small church in Missouri, where I was born,

there is an echo more unusual than those.

"What is so strange about the echo there?"asked one of them.

"Well,I will tell you,"said Mark Twain

"The echo in that church is so unusual that if one asks in a loud voice:

Good Morning!How are you?The echo repeats very clearly after a moment:

Very well,thank you. And how are you?

【篇二】译文

不同寻常的回音

有一次，马克.土温和两个朋友在饭馆里坐着。

一个朋友刚从佛蒙特旅行回来。

这位朋友说佛蒙特的大山里空气非常清新。

在许多地方，

一个声音的回音要比原来的声音强五倍。

第二个朋友说那没有什么。

在他居住的科罗拉多的许多地方，

一个早上说话的声音要到下午才能返回。

马克.土温大笑起来，然后他说:

你们说的那些回音非常不同寻常。

但是在我出生的密苏里的一个小教堂里，

有一个回音比你们说的那些更不同寻常。

"那里的那个回音有什么不同寻常的?"一个人问。

"好吧，我来告诉你们，"马克.土温说。

"那个教堂里的回音真的非常不同寻常，如果一个人 大声问:

早上好!你好吗?过一会儿，回音会清楚地回答:

非常好，谢谢。你好吗？

【篇三】第42期

A Different Kind of Audience

Al Smith was governor of New York States. He was a famous man.

He was born very poor on the East Side of New York City.

He had little education.He worked very hard and won great success.

One day,as governor, he was visiting the state prison at Sing Sing.

Sing Sing is one of the largest prisons in the United States

The head of the prison

asked Mr.Smith to say something to the prisoners.

Mr.Smith had never spoken to this kind of audience before.

He did not know how to begin.

Finally,he said,"My fellow citizens..."

Then he remembered that when a man goes to prison he is no longer a citizen.

He began again."My fellow prisoners..." That did not sound right,so he said,

"Well,anyway,I'm glad to see so many of you here today."

【篇四】译文

与众不同的听众

阿尔.史密斯是纽约的州长。他是个名人。

他出生在纽约市东部的一个穷苦家庭。

他读书不多，但是他工作勤奋，终于获得了很大的成就。

有一天，作为州长，他访问星星州的监狱。

星星监狱是全国的监狱之一。

监狱长

请史密斯对囚犯们说几句话。

史密斯先生从来没有对这一类听众讲过话。

他不知道该怎样开口。

最后，他说:"我亲爱的公民们......"

接着他想起一个人蹲进监狱就不再是公民了。

他重新开始:"我亲爱的囚犯们......"那听起来也不对劲儿，于是他说:

"噢，无论如何，今天在这儿见到你们这么多人真是太高兴了。"