古德明英語軍事小故事：提防奸細(中英對照)
古德明《征服英語》之英語軍事故事，古德明，香港英語教育作家，他開了一個《征服英語專欄》，在專欄中專門用英語寫了世界近代史上的軍事小故事，用英語講述歷史中那些驚心動魄的戰爭。提防奸細
during the second world war, the british public were encouraged to be on the lookout for members of a fifth column, which in fact hardly existed. the sorts of offences which brought prosecution included a man sentenced to seven years for smashing up telephone booths, and a schoolmaster jailed for advancing"defeatist theories" to his pupils.
the idea of a fifth column in britain sometimes made people paranoid. one british officer, billeted on a winchester clergyman, was reported to the police by the clergyman's daughter as a suspected german spy on the grounds that he did not flush the toilet after use. and there was a cardiff householder who accused his neighbour of tapping out morse code signals to the germans. it was discovered that the cause of the sounds was a leaky cistern.
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