私人“電話”業務
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.
【課文翻譯】
詹姆斯·斯科特先生在錫爾伯里有一個汽車修理部，現在他剛在平赫斯特買了另一個汽車修理部。平赫斯特離錫爾伯里只有5英里，但詹姆斯·斯科特先生未能為他新的汽車修理部搞到一部電話機，所以他買了12只鴿子。昨天，一只鴿子把第一封信從平赫斯特帶到錫爾伯里。這只鳥只用了3分鐘就飛完了全程。到目前為止，斯科特先生從一個汽車修理部向另一個發送了大量索取備件的信件和其他緊急函件。就這樣，他開始了自己的私人“電話”業務。
【生詞和短語】
pigeon n. 鴿子
message n. 信息
cover v. 越過
distance n. 距離
request n. 要求，請求
spare part 備件
service n. 業務，服務
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