Once a young man bought a pair of trousers for himseif. The size of the new trousere was two incbes Ionger than his. So be asked his mother or either of his two sistem Io shorten (使变短) them. Tbey all smd nothing to bim because they were too busy. But none of tbem forgot the Irousers. They did it one after another as soon us they were free whhoul rolling the other. The next morning when the young tne put on the trousers. be fgund the trousers had been four incbes short. |
Once a young man bought a pair of trousers for himseif. The size of the new trousere was two incbes Ionger than his. So be asked his mother or either of his two sistem Io shorten (使变短) them. Tbey all smd nothing to bim because they were too busy. But none of tbem forgot the Irousers. They did it one after another as soon us they were free whhoul rolling the other. The next morning when the young tne put on the trousers. be fgund the trousers had been four incbes short. |
I once knew a young man, nineteen years of age, who lived with absolute outward(外表的)confidence and self-possession for a number of years before I discovered that he could not read or write. His various methods of trick, which were also skills of self-protection, were so skillful and so desperate(绝望)that neither I nor any of his other adult friends were aware of his entire helplessness in face of written words until we went to dinner one night at a local restaurant, and suddenly discovered that he could not read.
Even here, it was not the first time we went out to eat, but something like the second or third, that Peter’s desperation shocked me. The first time, he was clever enough to cover the truth. He studied the menu for a moment, then looked up to the waitress and asked her if he could have "just a coke and a hamburger". He told me later that he had done the same thing many times before and that he had learned to act as if he were examining the menu:&qu
A. pretend that he could not read or write
B. pretend to be studying the menu
C. be desperate for help from other people
D. protect himself by playing a musical instrument
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