April 20th, 2009 
kyra Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president’s palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began: ‘Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president’s palace’. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
} Fred gave the right answers to the questions the instructor asked.
instruct，是给别人填充，给别人传输知识。有时候他带点命令的色彩。例句的意思是，Fred 正确地的回答了讲师的问题。
} A: I’ve had my new stereo for a whole week. But I haven’t yet figure out how to record a cassette.
B: Didn’t an instruction manual come with it?
这个音响我买了一个星期了，但是我到现在还不知道怎么用磁带去录音。cassette是放磁带的卡盒。instruction manual 是说明书。come with it，说明你买这个音响的时候，附带了说明书。
} I am the president of the united states.
} president 不仅可以称为总统，所有组织的最高领导人都可以叫做 president。另外，the united states 在北美很多人都会说成 the states。
} The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.
} Origin – original – originally
origin 坐标轴的原点
Original – hard copy – notarized copy
当你复印东西时，复印件就是 hard copy,你去公证一样东西，公证出来的拷贝叫做 notarized copy，原先那个原件即是original。
The seminar originally scheduled for today has been cancelled.
本来预定在今天的研讨会被取消了。seminar 研讨会
} A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president’s palace.
} Be allowed to
you‘re allowed only one mistake.
你只能犯一次错误。
You are not allowed to laugh at my joke.
我讲的笑话你不准笑。
Am I allowed to drink anything?
我能喝点东西吗？
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