课文内容：
GEORGE: Two return tickets to London,
please.
What time will the next train
leave?
ATTENDANT: At nineteen minutes past
eight.
GEORGE: Which platform?
ATTENDANT: Platform Two.
Over the bridge.
KEN: What time will the next train
leave?
GEORGE: At eight nineteen.
KEN: We've got plenty of time.
GEORGE: It's only three minutes
to eight.
KEN: Let's go and have a drink.
There's a bar
next door to the station.
GEORGE: We had better
go back to the station now,
Ken.
PORTER: Tickets, please.
GEORGE: We want to catch
the eight nineteen to London.
PORTER: You've just missed it!
GEORGE: What!
It's only eight fifteen.
PORTER: I'm sorry, sir.
That clock's ten minutes
slow.
GEORGE: When's the next train?
PORTER: In five hours' time!
参考翻译：
乔 治：买两张到伦敦的往返票。
下一班火车什么时候开？
服务员：8点19分。
乔 治：在哪个站台？
服务员：2号站台。过天桥。
肯：下一班火车什么时候开？
乔 治：8点19分。
肯：我们时间还很宽裕。
乔 治：现在才7点57分。
肯：让我们去喝点东西吧，
车站旁有一个酒吧。
乔 治：肯，我们现在最好回车站去。
收票员：请把车票拿出来。
乔 治：我们要乘8点19分的车去伦敦。
收票员：你们刚好错过了那班车。
乔 治：什么！现在只有8点15分。
收票员：对不起，先生，那个钟慢了10分钟。
乔 治：下一班车是什么时候？
收票员：5个小时以后！
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