新概念英语第三册 less40_new

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[00:03.15]40 真假难辨
[00:06.30]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:12.12]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:17.95]How did the policeman discover that the whole thing was a joke?
[00:21.73]警察是如何发现整件事情其实是个骗局?
[00:25.52]It has never been explained why university students
[00:28.04]谁也不会明白,为什么大学生
[00:30.56]seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else
[00:33.45]好像比任何人都更喜欢恶作剧
[00:36.34]Students specialize in a particular type of practical joke:the hoax
[00:39.86]大学生擅长一种特殊的恶作剧--戏弄人
[00:43.39]Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire
[00:46.52]请消防队来扑灭一场根本没有的大火
[00:49.66]is a crude form of deception
[00:51.54]是一种低级骗局,
[00:53.42]which no self-respecting student would ever indulde in.
[00:56.10]有自尊心的大学生决不会去做.
[00:58.78]Students often create amusing situations
[01:01.30]大学生们常常做的是制造一种可笑的局面,
[01:03.82]which are funny to everyone except the victims.
[01:06.64]使大家笑上一场,当然受害者是笑不出的
[01:09.46]When a student recently saw two workmen
[01:11.84]最近有个学生看见两个工人
[01:14.21]using a pneumatic drill outside his university,
[01:17.00]在大学校门外用风钻干活,
[01:19.78]he immediately telephoned the police
[01:21.80]马上打电话报告警察,
[01:23.83]and informed them that two students dressed up as workmen
[01:26.71]说有两个学生装扮成工人,
[01:29.60]were tearing up the road with a pneumatic drill.
[01:32.12]正在用风钻破坏路面.
[01:34.64]As soon as he had hung up,he went over to the workmen
[01:37.37]挂上电话后,他又马上来到工人那儿,
[01:40.10]and told them that if a policeman ordered them to go away,
[01:42.92]告诉他们若有个警察来让他们走开,
[01:45.74]they were not to take him seriously.
[01:47.78]别把他当回事.
[01:49.82]He added that a student had dressed up as a policeman
[01:52.50]还对工人说,有个学生常装扮成警察
[01:55.17]and was playing all sorts of silly jokes on people.
[01:57.69]无聊地同别人开玩笑.
[02:00.22]Both the police and the workmen were grateful to the student
[02:03.00]警察与工人都对那个学生表示感谢,
[02:05.78]for this piece of advance information.
[02:07.75]感谢他事先通报情况.
[02:09.72]The student hid in ann archway nearby
[02:12.06]那学生躲在附近一拱形门廊里,
[02:14.40]where he could watch and hear everything that went on.
[02:16.62]在那儿可以看见、听到现场发生的一切.
[02:18.84]Sure enough,a policeman arrived on the scene
[02:21.32]果然,警察来了,
[02:23.80]and politely asked the workmen to go away.
[02:26.09]有礼貌地请工人离开此地;
[02:28.38]When he received a very rude reply from one of the workmen,
[02:30.90]但其中一个工人粗鲁地回了几句.
[02:33.42]he threatened to remove them by force.
[02:35.49]于是警察威胁要强行使他们离开.
[02:37.57]The workmen told him to do as he pleased
[02:39.95]工人说.悉听尊便.
[02:42.32]and the policeman telephoned for help.
[02:44.21]警察去打电话叫人.
[02:46.09]Shortly afterwards,
[02:47.86]一会儿工夫,
[02:49.64]4 more policemen arrived and remonstrated with the workmen.
[02:52.37]又来了4个警察,规劝工人离开.
[02:55.10]As the men refused to stop working,
[02:57.12]由于工人拒绝停下手中的活,
[02:59.15]the police attempted to seize the pneumatic drill.
[03:01.37]警察想夺风钻.
[03:03.59]The workmen struggled fiercely and one of them lost his temper
[03:06.37]两个工人奋力抗争,其中一个发了火.
[03:09.15]He threatened to call the police.
[03:11.07]威胁说要去叫警察.
[03:12.99]At this,the police pointed out ironically
[03:15.57]警察听后讥讽地说,
[03:18.14]that this would hardly be necessary
[03:20.11]这大可不必,
[03:22.08]as the men were already under arrest.
[03:24.36]因为他俩已被逮捕了.
[03:26.63]Pretending to speak seriously,one of the workmen asked
[03:29.41]其中一个工人装模作样地问道,
[03:32.19]if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the station
[03:35.01]在被带往警察局之前是否可以打一个电话
[03:37.84]Permission was granted and a policeman accompanied him to a pay phone
[03:40.96]警察同意了,陪他来到一个投币电话前
[03:44.08]Only when he saw that the man was actually telephoning the police