Lesson 46 Expensive and uncomfortable 既昂贵又受罪What did the man in this story do?When a plane from London arrived at Sydney airport, workers began to unload a number of wooden boxes which contained clothing. No one could account for the fact that one of the boxes was extremely heavy. It suddenly occurred to one of the workers to open up the box. He was astonished at what he found. A man was lying in the box on top of a pile of wooden goods. He was so surprised at being discovered that he did not even try to run away. After he was arrested, the man admitted hiding in the box before the plane left London. He had had a long and uncomfortable trip, for he had been confined to the wooden box for over eighteen hours. The man was ordered to pay $3,500 for the cost of the trip. The normal price of a ticket is $2,000! 参考译文当一架来自伦敦的飞机抵达悉尼机场时, 工人们开始卸下装有服装的一批木箱. 其中有只箱子特别重, 可谁也弄不清是怎么回事. 突然一个工人想到打开箱子看看. 看到的情景使吃惊, 箱内有一个人正躺在一堆毛织品之上. 他由于被人发现而感到非常吃惊, 甚至都没有企图逃跑. 此人被逮捕后, 承认他是在飞机离开伦敦前躲进箱里的. 他经历了一次漫长而又难受的旅程, 因为他在那木箱里闷了18 个多小时 . 此人被责令交付旅费3,500英镑 , 而正常票价是 2,000英镑 ! 一、New words and expressions 生词和短语1. load [l? ud] 1) n. 负荷物，载荷物（尤指沉重的） a load of sand 运载的一批沙子2) n. （精神方面的）负担，重荷，忧虑，劳苦a heavy load of guilty 沉重的负疚感eg. Her recovery took a load off my mind. 她恢复健康使我卸下心中重担。3) v. 装载，使⋯ . 负荷load a lorry with bricks 往卡车上装砖 load bricks onto a lorry 把砖装上卡车lorry ['l? ri] n.运货汽车 , 卡车 / （美）unload v. 卸（货）wooden adj. 木头的extremely adv. 非常，极其occur v. 发生astonish v. 使惊讶pile n. ...
