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新概念英语第二册第
65
课
:Jumbo versus the police
Lesson 65
Jumbo versus the police
小象对警察
First listen and then
answer the question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
Why did the
police have to push Jumbo off the main street?
Last Christmas,
the circus owner, Jimmy Gates, decided to take
some
presents to a children's hospital.
Dressed up as Father Christmas and
accompanied by a 'guard of honour' of
six pretty girls, he set off down
the
main
street
of
the
city
riding
a
baby
elephant
called
Jumbo.
He
should
have
known
that
the
police
would
never
allow
this
sort
of
thing.
A
policeman
approached
Jimmy
and
told
him
he
ought
to
have
gone
along
a
side
street as Jumbo was holding up the
traffic. Though Jimmy agreed to go at
once, Jumbo refused to move. Fifteen
policemen had to push very hard to
get
him off the main street. The police had a
difficult time, but they
were
most
amused.
'Jumbo
must
weigh
a
few
tons,'
said
a
policeman
afterwards, 'so it was fortunate that
we didn't have to carry him. Of
course,
we should arrest him, but as he has a good record,
we shall let
him off this time.'
参考译文
去年圣诞节，马戏团老板吉米
.
盖茨决定送些礼物给儿童医院。他打扮成圣
诞老人，在由
6
个漂亮姑娘组成的“仪仗队”的陪同下，骑上
一头名叫江伯的小
象，
沿着城里的主
要街道出发了。
他本该知道警察绝不会允许这类事情发生。
一<
/p>
个警察走过来告诉吉米，
他应该走一条小路，
因为江泊阻碍了交通。
虽然吉米同
意马
上就走，但江伯却拒绝移动。
15
个警察不得不用很大的力气把它推离主要
街道。警察虽然吃了苦头，但他们还是感到很
有趣。
“江伯一定有好几吨重，
”一
个
警察
事后这样说，
“
值得庆幸的是它没让我们抬它走。
当然，
我们应该逮捕
它，
但由于它一贯表现很好，这次我们饶了它。
”
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New words and
Expressions
生词和短语
versus
prep.
对
(
对抗的概念
)
Christmas
n.
圣诞节
circus
n.
马戏团
present
n.
礼物
accompany
v.
陪伴
,
随行
approach
v.
走近
ought modal
verb.
应该
weigh
v.
重
fortunate
adj.
幸运的
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Lesson 65
自学导读
First things first
课文详注
Further
notes on the
text
1
．
Jumbo versus
the police,
（标题）小象对警察。
versus
表了竞赛等中“……对……”
：
Have you watched the game
last night? It was France versus Italy.
昨天晚上的比赛你看了吗？是法国队对意大利队。
2
．
Dressed
up
as
Father
Christmas
and
accompanied
by
a
‘
guard
of
honour
’
of six
pretty girls, he set off down the main street of
the city riding
a baby elephant called
Jumbo.
他打扮成圣诞老人，在由
6
个漂亮姑娘组成的
“仪仗队”的陪同下，骑上一头名叫江伯的小象，沿着城里的主要
街道出发了。
< br>（
1
）
dress up as
表示“装扮成……（的样子）
”
，这里
的
dressed
有表示
状态的含义。
（
2
）在英国英语中，圣诞老人通常用
Father Christm
as
表示。
Father
大
写可表示对老人的一种尊称：
Father
Baker
（贝克大爷／老爹）
。
（
3
）
accompany (vt.)
的主要
含义是“陪伴”
、
“陪同”
：
Jane
accompanied her mother to the theatre last night.
昨天晚上，简陪她母亲去看戏了。
When I saw her yesterday,
she was accompanied by her boyfriend.
昨天我见到她时，她正由她的男朋友陪着。
（
4
）
guard
of
honour
指
“仪仗队”
，
guard
可表示
“
（一队）
警卫队”
、
“
（一
队）卫兵／哨兵”等。
of six
pretty girls
中的
of
表示“由……组成的”
：
A group of six
Chinese boys took part in the competition.
一个由
6
名中国男孩组成的小组参加了这次竞赛。
（
5
）
down
在这里是介词，表示“沿”
、
“顺”
、
“循”
的意思：
Just walk down the street and you'll
see the post office.
一直沿着这条街走，你就会看到邮局。
（
6
）
baby
可作形容词，
< br>表示
“幼小的”
、
“小的”
、
“小型的”
等含义：
She
likes
to watch baby
dogs.
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