英語幽默小故事帶翻譯:Being cheated 受騙(中英雙語)
101.Being cheated
101.受騙
While traveling in Maine,I stopped in a coastal village to mail a birthday card. According to the pickup schedule on the box outside the tiny post office,I had missed the daily mail truck by five minutes. I went inside to ask about it.
在緬因旅行時,我來到一個海邊的小村莊寄一張生日卡。從小郵局外邊的信筒上所寫的時間看,剛好在五分鐘前郵車從這里把信取走了。我急忙奔進郵局,詢問這一情況,“別著
急,信件要到下午才被取走呢。”女郵遞員很正經地說。
"Don't worry. Mail doesn't go out until later this afternoon,"the postmistress said in a no-nonsense tone.
“可是外面的郵筒上明明寫著取信的時間是上午八點半。”我說道。
“But the sign on the box says that it's picked up at 8:30 in the morning,"I said.
“噢,”她解釋道:“那是我每天從那里取出把它們拿到這里的時間。”
"That's when I pick up the mail from the box and bring it in here,"she explained.
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