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[00:11.65]5 确切数字
[00:23.30]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:26.84]听录音，然后回答以下问题.
[00:30.38]What was the consequence of the editor's insistenceon facts and statistics?
[00:38.71]编辑坚持确切数据的结果是什么?
[00:47.05]Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes
[00:50.98]报刊杂志的编辑常常走向极端,
[00:54.91]to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics
[00:57.78]而原因仅仅是为了向读者提供数据.
[01:00.66]Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine
[01:03.99]去年,一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托
[01:07.32]to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.
[01:10.70]写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章
[01:14.08]When the article arrived,
[01:15.86]稿子寄来后,
[01:17.64]the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it.
[01:20.91]编辑看了第一句话就拒绝予以发表.
[01:24.19]The article began:
[01:25.72]文章的开头是这样的:
[01:27.25]Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.'
[01:30.74]"几百级台阶通向环绕总统府的高墙."
[01:34.22]The editor at once sent the journalist a fax
[01:36.89]编辑立即给那位记者发传真,
[01:39.55]instructing him to find out the exact number of steps
[01:42.37]要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字
[01:45.20]and the height of the wall
[01:46.72]和围墙的高度
[01:48.25]The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts,
[01:51.37]记者立即出发去核实这些重要的事实,
[01:54.49]but he took a long time to send them.
[01:56.62]但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来.
[01:58.75]Meanwhile,the editor was getting impatient
[02:01.09]在此期间,编辑等得不耐烦了
[02:03.43]for the magazine would soon go to press.
[02:05.65]因为杂志马上要付印.
[02:07.87]He sent the journalist two more faxes,but received no reply.
[02:11.20]他给记者先后发去两份传真,但对方毫无反应.
[02:14.53]He sent yet another fax informing the journalist
[02:17.36]于是他又发了一份传真,通知那位记者说,
[02:20.20]that if he did not reply soon he would be fired.
[02:23.07]若再不迅速答复,将被解雇.
[02:25.95]When the journalist again failed to reply,
[02:28.32]但记者还是没有回复.
[02:30.70]the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.
[02:34.24]编辑无奈,勉强按原样发稿了.
[02:37.78]A week later,the editor at last received a fax from the journalist.
[02:41.04]一周之后,编辑终于接到了记者的传真.
[02:44.31]Not only had the poor man been arrested,
[02:46.43]那个可怜的记者不仅被捕了
[02:48.54]but he had been sent to prison as well.
[02:50.72]而且还被送进了监狱.
[02:52.90]However,he had at last been allowed to send a fax
[02:55.58]不过,他终于获准发回了一份传真
[02:58.26]in which he informed the editor
[03:00.23]在传真中他告诉编辑,
[03:02.20]that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps
[03:05.84]他被抓起来了当时他正在数那1,084级台阶,
[03:09.47]leading to the 15 foot wall which surrounded the president's palace
[03:12.85]这台阶通向15英尺高的总统府围墙.
[03:16.23]This is the analysis of the text.以下为课文讲解。
[04:31.46]以下为课文讲解。
[05:46.70]Part 1
[08:39.76]Part 2
[11:29.71]Part 3
[14:00.39]Part 4