双学位英汉翻译课程 2.pptVIP

Exercise Two The thirty-second day out of Bombay began inauspiciously. In the morning a sea smashed one of the galley doors. We dashed in through lots of steam and found the cook very wet and indignant with ship: “ She’s getting worse every day. She’s tying to drown me in front of my own stove!” He was very angry. We pacified him, and the carpenter, though washed away twice from there, managed to repair the door. Through that accident our dinners was not ready till late, but it didn’t matter in the end because Knowels, who went to fetch it, got knocked down by a sea and the dinner went over th