phase是什么意思Dictation答案11——20

2021年1月19日发(作者：hobby)
11
、
A Henpecked Husband and His Wife
There was once a large, fat woman who had a small, thin husband. He had
a
job
in
a
big
company
and
was
given
his
weekly
wages
every
Friday
evening.
As soon as he got
home on
Fridays,
his wife
used to make him give her all
his
money,
and
then
she
used
to
give
him
back
only
enough
to
buy
his
lunch
in his company every day.
One day, the small man came home very excited. He hurried into the
living-room. His wife was listening to the radio and eating chocolates
there.
“You will never guess what happened to me to day, dear.” he said.

He waited for a few seconds and then added, “I won ten thousand dollars
on the lottery!”

“That is wonderful! ” said his wife delightedly. But then she pulled
a long face and added angrily, “But how
could you afford to buy the
ticket?”

Useful Words and Expressions:
1. henpecked
怕老婆的，妻管严的

2. lottery
彩票

a great lottery
虚无缥缈的事

3. pull a long face
拉下脸来

have a face to say that
脸皮厚得竟能讲出这种话


12
、
A
Young Man’s Promise

One
day,
a
young
man
was
writing
a
letter
to
his
girlfriend
who
lived
just
a few miles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved
her
and
how
wonderful
he
thought
she
was.
The
more
he
wrote
the
more
poetic
he became. Finally he said that in order to be with her, he would suffer
the
greatest
difficulties,
he
would
face
the
greatest
dangers
that
anyone
couldn’t imagine. In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would
swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest, and he
would fight against the fiercest animals with his bare hands.
He
finished
the
letter,
signed
his
name
and
then
suddenly
remembered
that
he
had
forgotten
to
mention
something
quite
important.
So,
in
a
postscript
below his name, he added:
“By
the
way,
I’ll
be
over
to
see
you
on
Wednesday
night,
if
it
doesn’t
rain.”


13
、
A Kind Neighbor
Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ apartment was full of luggage, packages, furniture
and
boxes.
Both
of
them
were
very
busy
when
they
heard
the
doorbell
ring.
Mrs. Jones went to open it and she saw a middle-aged lady outside. The
lady said she lived next door. Mrs. Jones invited her to come in and
apologized
because
there
was
no
place
for
her
to
sit.
“Oh,
that’s
OK.”
said the lady. “I just come to welcome to your new home. As you know,
in some parts of this city, neighbors are not friendly at all. They are
some apartment houses where people don’t know any of their neighbors,
not even the ones next door. But in this building, everyone is very
friendly
with
everyone
else.
We
are
a
big
happy
family.
I
am
sure
you
will
be very happy here.” Mr. and Mrs. Jones said, “But madam, we are not
new dwellers in this apartment. We’ve lived here for two years. We are
moving out tomorrow.”

14
、That Isn’t Our Fault

Mr. and Mrs. Williams got married when he was twenty-three, and she was
twenty.
Twenty- five
years
later,
they
had
a
big
party,
and
a
photographer
came and took some photographs of them.
Then the photographer gave Mrs. Williams a card and said, “They’ll be
ready next Wednesday. You can get them from studio.”

“No,” Mrs. Williams said, “please send them to us.”

The
photographs
arrived
a
week
later,
but
Mrs.
Williams
was
not
happy
when
she
saw
them.
She
got
into
her
car
and
drove
to
the
photographer’s
studio.
She went inside and said angrily, “You took some photographs of me and
my husband last week, but I’m not going to pay for them.”

“Oh, why not?” the photographer asked.

“Because my husband looks like a monkey,” Mrs. Williams said.

“Well,”
the
photographer
answered,
“that
isn’t
our
fault.
Why
didn’t
you think of that before you married him?”


15
、
A Guide's Answer
In 1861, the Civil War
started in the
United States
between the Northern
and the Southern states. The war continued with great bitterness until
1865, when the Northerners were victorious. However, even today, many
Southerners
have
not
forgotten
their
defeat,
or
forgiven
the
Northerners.
A
few
years
ago,
a
party
of
American
tourists
were
going
round
one
of
the
battlefields
of
the
Civil
War
with
a
guide
who
came
from
one
of
the
Southern
states.
At
each
place,
the
guide
told
the
tourists
stirring
stories
about
how
a
few
Southern
soldiers
had
conquered
powerful
forces
of
Northerners
there.
At
last,
one
of
the
tourists,
a
lady
who
came
from
the
North,
stopped
the
guide and said to him, “ But surely that the Northern amp3y must have
won at least one victory in the Civ
il War?”

“Not
as
long
as
I’m
the
guide
here,
madam,”
answered
the
Southern
guide.