家庭纷争哈利波特中英选段——从九又四分之三站台开始的旅程

2021年1月17日发(作者：教师招考试题及答案)
The Journey From Platform Nine And Three- quarters

At that moment a group of people passed just behind him and he caught a few
words of what they were saying.
“— packed with Muggles, of course—”
Harry swung round. The speaker was a plump woman who was talking to four
boys, all with flaming red hair. Each of them was pushing a trunk like Harry's in
front of him — and they had an owl.
Heart hammering, Harry pushed his cart after them. They stopped and so did
he, just near enough to hear what they were saying.
“Now, what's the platform number?” said the boys’ mother.
“Nine and three-quarters!” piped a small girl, also red- headed, who was
holding her hand, “Mom, can't I go…”
“You're not old enough, Ginny, now be quiet. All right, Percy, you go first.”
What looked like the oldest boy marched toward platforms nine and ten. Harry
watched, careful not to blink in case he missed it — but just as the boy reached
the dividing barrier between the two platforms, a large crowd of tourists came
swarming in front of him and by the time the last backpack had cleared away,
the boy had vanished.
“Fred, you next,” the plump woman said.
“I'm not Fred, I'm George,” said the boy. “Honestly, woman, you call yourself
our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?”
“Sorry, George, dear.”
“Only joking, I am Fred,” said the boy, and off he went. His twin called after him
to hurry up, and he must have done so, because a second later, he had gone
— but how had he done it?
Now the third brother was walking briskly toward the barrier he was almost
there — and then, quite suddenly, he wasn't anywhere.
There was nothing else for it.
“Excuse me,” Harry said to the plump woman.

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