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Lesson Fourteen The Delicatessen 熟食店Thomas Mann 汤姆逊·曼 　 1... Down in the town on a corner of what was, comparatively speaking, our busiest street, there was a neat and attractively stocked delicatessen[shop selling freshly prepared food] store, a branch, if I am not mistaken, of a Wiesbaden firm. It is patronized[visited, supported] by the best society. My way to school led me past this shop daily and I had stopped in many times, coin in hand, to buy cheap candies, fruit drops or barley sugar. Introduction Controlling idea:neat and attractively stocked　 Help to establish impression 1 在我们城镇的相对而言是最热闹，最繁华的街道的拐角，有一个干净的净是俏货的食杂店。如果我没有搞错的话，这是一个韦氏巴顿公司的分店。富裕人家是它的常客。每天上学，我都要从小店门口路过。好多次，我停在门口，手里攥着硬币，打算买点便宜的糖块，水果糖，或麦芽糖。 ２ But on going in one day I found it empty not only of customers but of attendants as well. There was a little bell on a spring over the door, and this had rung as I entered; but either the inner room was empty or it occupants had not heard the bell-- I was and remained alone. The glass door at the rear was covered by some pleated [arranged in folds] material. At first the emptiness surprised and startled me, it even gave me an uncanny [peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature]feelings; but presently I began to look about me, for never before had I been able to contemplate [to look at attentively and thoughtfully] undisturbed the delights of such a spot. 2 但有一天，我走进店铺，发现里头空无一人，不但没有顾客，也没有售货员。门上的弹簧挂着个小铃铛。我进去的时候，门铃响过来着，但是要么是里屋没有人，要么是房子里头的人没有听见，反正里头只有我一个人。玻璃制的后门挂着打褶的帘子。一开始，这空空荡荡让我惊奇，吓了我一跳。甚至给我一种不可思议的神密感觉。所以我开始审视四周。以前我从来没有机会，在不受干扰的情况下，好好看一看这令人愉悦的地方。 ３ It was a narrow room, with a rather high ceiling, and crowded from floor to ceiling with goodies. [good things] [Actual description color imagery]There were rows and rows of hams and sausages of all shapes and colours-- white, yellow, red, and black; [general, then expanding] fat and lean and round and long-- rows of canned preserves, cocoa and tea, bright translucent [transparent] glass b