摘要: "Did you get a new engine?" Mr． Black asked the airhostess． "No，we got a new captain," she answered．[阅读全文:]
摘要: "Now people aren't going to stop and ask me the time." He said happily． But after that, a lot of people stopped everyday, looked at the clock and then said to Dan,"Is that clock right?"[阅读全文:]
摘要: European guides know about enough English to tangle ev erything up so that a man can make neiter head nor tail of it．[阅读全文:]
摘要: When I was in the grocery store I heard my friend moan，"Oh， did I just make a faux pas！" I stopped thumping melonsand gave her my full attention．[阅读全文:]
摘要: The squire and his wife had， as they say in the society novels，"drifted apart．" Rarely were they seen at the old Hall，and never together．[阅读全文:]
摘要: I sat next the Duchess at tea． It was just as I feared it would be：[阅读全文:]
摘要: Swans sing before they die't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing．[阅读全文:]
摘要: One night a hotel caught fire， and the people who were staying in it ran out in their night clothes．[阅读全文:]