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Lesson 5 No wrong number 无错误号码课文内容：Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private‘telephone’service.Notes on the text课文注释1 from Silbury：介词from作“距……”“离……”讲，常与away连用。如： It is far (away) from here. 离这里很远。2 up to now (=up till now), 到现在为止；作时间状语，句子的时态多用现在完成时。3 a great many, 许多的，其中great表示数量很大；只能同可数名词的复数连用。参考译文詹姆斯·斯科特先生在锡尔伯里有一个汽车修理部，现在他刚在平赫斯特买了另一个汽车修理部。平赫斯特离锡尔伯里只有5英里，但詹姆斯·斯科特先生未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到一部电话机，所以他买了12只鸽子。昨天，一只鸽子把第一封信从平赫斯特带到锡尔伯里。这只鸟只用了3分钟就飞完了全程。到目前为止，斯科特先生从一个汽车修理部向另一个发送了大量索取备件的信件和其他紧急函件。就这样，他开始了自己的私人“电话”业务。　　自学导读　　1．Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons.　　平赫斯特离锡尔伯里只有5英里，但詹姆斯·斯科特先生未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到一部电话机，所以他买了12只鸽子。　　（1）这句话由3个部分组成。but引导的句子与前面的句子为并列关系，so引导的句子表示结果。　　（2）from 在这里表示距离上相隔，译为“离”、“从”等：　　The school is a mile (away) from my house.　　学校离我家有一英里。　　She has been away from home for 5 days now.　　她离家已有5天了。　　2．Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. 昨天，一只鸽子把第一封信从平赫斯特带到锡尔伯里。　　（1）from…to…表示从一个地方到另一个地方。如下文中的from one garage to the other。这个短语中顺序比较重要，不能搞错方向：　　He flew from Beijing to Moscow.　　他从北京坐飞机去莫斯科。　　He looked at the girl from head to foot.　　他把这姑娘从头到脚打量了一下。　　The news spread from house to house.　　家家户户都得知了这条消息。　　（2）message在这里的意思是“（口头或书面的）信息”、“信”：　　an oral/ written message 口信／便条　　Hers is a message for you from your sister.　　这是你姐姐／妹妹给你留的便条。　　John has gone to his office. Would you like to leave him a message?　　约翰去办公室了。你愿意给他留个口信吗？　　与message相关的另一个词是 messenger，意为“送信人”、“信使”等。　　3．Up to now, Mr. Scott h