古德明英語軍事小故事:死里逃生(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。死里逃生
at one time during world war i churchill visited france to observe the fighting. in his shelter at the front line, he received a message from a general, a former acquaintance, who wanted to see him. he was to walk to a crossroads some three miles away, where a car would meet him. after he had waited at the crossroads for an hour, an officer came and told him that the car had gone to the wrong crossroads, and now it was too late for the meeting.
cursing the general, churchill trudged back to the shelter in the dark and the rain, only to find that five minutes after he had left a shell had come through its roof and killed the man inside. churchill records:"suddenly i felt my irritation against general x pass completely from my mind." if anything, he felt grateful to the general.
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