每天说半小时英语口语071

A:What's the matter?
怎么啦？

B:Which subway should I take to get to the East Side?
我要搭哪趟地铁才能去东区。

A:Oh,you have to take the shuttle to Grand Central.
噢，你必须搭去Grand Central的短程火车。

B:Which train is that?Which platform does it leave from?
是哪一辆？它从哪个站台驶离？

A:It's not on this platform.These trains are uptown and downtown,not crosstown.You have to go up these stairs over there.
不是在这个站台。这些的火车是住宅区的和商业区的，没有穿越市区的。你必须往那边的楼梯走上去。

幸运的乘客

A man intended to travel by train to Manchester.Before setting out,he looked up the times of the trains,and discovered that there was an eight o'clock train.
一个男人想搭火车去曼彻斯特旅行。出发之前，他查找了火车的时间表，发现八点钟有一趟火车。

As he was walking to the station,he noticed one of his night watchmen.Knowing that the man had worked for the railway previously,the man asked him whether the eight o'clock was the faster train.
在他走去火车站的时，他看到一个夜间守门人。知道那个男人之前在铁路部门工作过，男人问他8点钟的那趟列车是否是快车。

The watchman shook his head solemnly."Usually,the eight o'clock is very good," he said."But last night as I was sitting here,I had a terrible dream.In my dream,I saw a wrecked train.I knew it was tonight's eight o'clock train.There had been a dreadful accident and every one in the train had been killed.Don't go on that train tonight."
守门人严肃地摇摇头。“通常，八点钟的列车是很好的，”他说。“但是昨晚我在这里坐着，我做了一个很可怕的梦。在我的梦里，我看到火车的残骸。我知道那是今晚八点钟的火车。会发生一场可怕的事故，火车上的每个人都会丧生。今晚不要搭那列火车。”

The man,who was superstitious,decided to wait for the next train and he reached Manchester.There ,to his horror,he learned that the night watchman had been right.The eight o'clock train had had an accident and all the passengers had been killed.
那个男人迷信，他决定等下一趟火车，他达到了曼彻斯特。令他感到恐怖的是，到那里他知道那个夜间守门员是对的。八点钟的那趟列车发生事故，所有乘客都丧生了。