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英语小短文:目中无人The man who saw nobody

时间:2015-08-21 04:47:13

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   There was a man, in the State of Qin, who wanted some gold. One morning he dressed himself smartly and went to the market. Arriving at the gold-dealer’s stall1, he seized2 a piece of gold and made off.

  秦国有个人渴望得到金子,于是在一天早上,他穿戴整齐,来到了市场上,停留在一个卖金子的货摊旁,抓起一块金子就匆匆逃走。
  The officer who caught him asked him, “Why did you steal gold in front of so many people?”
  抓住他的小官吏问他:“为什么你敢在众人面前偷金子?”
  “When I took the gold,” he answered, “I saw  nobody. All I saw was the gold.”
  “当我抓住那块金子时,”他回答说,“我眼里没有任何人了,我看见的只是那块金子。”

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1 stall tUpzx     
n.摊位,铺子,售货亭
参考例句:
  • She sells fruits at a market stall.她在市场的货摊上卖水果。
  • He has a stall that sells designer ripoffs.他开了个铺子卖仿冒设计师品牌衣服。
2 seized 951e6000c1171a252c5da7918b15e338     
抓住( seize的过去式和过去分词 ); 逮捕; 捉拿; 俘获
参考例句:
  • Another fit of coughing seized him. 他那咳嗽又一次发作了。
  • He seized power in a military coup in 1997. 他在 1997 年的军事政变中夺取了政权。