新概念英语第三册30---39(中英文对照).docVIP

Lesson30 The death of a ghost For years villagers believed that Endley farm was haunted. The farm was owned by two brothers, Joe and Bert Cox. They employed a few farm hands, but no one was willing to work there long. Every time a worker gave up his job, he told the same story. Farm labourers [leib?] 劳动,?劳工,?分娩said that they always woke up to find the work had been done overnight. Hay had been cut and cow sheds had been cleaned. A farm worker, who stayed up all night, claimed to have seen a figure cutting corn ?[k?:n] 谷物,?玉米,?伤感平庸作品in the moonlight. In time, it became an accepted fact that the Cox brothers employed a conscientious [.k?n?ien??s]认真的,?谨慎的ghost that did most of their work for them. No one suspected that there might be someone else on the farm who had never been seen. This was indeed the case. A short time ago, villagers were astonished to learn that the ghost of Endley had died. Everyone went to the funeral, for the ghost was none other than Eric Cox, a third brother who was supposed to have died as a young man. After the funeral, Joe and Bert revealed[rivi:l] ??显示,?透露,?揭示,?展现 a secret which they had kept for over forty years. Eric had been the eldest son of the family. He had been obliged [?blaid?d] 义不容辞的,? 感激的 to join the army during the first World War. As he hated army life he decided to desert his regiment [red?im?nt ] （军队）团,? 大量（人或物）. When he learnt that he would be sent abroad, he returned to the farm and his farther hid him until the end of the war. Fearing the authorities [?:θ?ritis] 当局,?官方, Eric remained in hiding after the war as well. His father told everybody that Eric had been killed in action. The only other people who knew the secret were Joe and Bert. They did not even tell their wives. When their father died, they thought it their duty to keep Eric in hiding. All these years, Eric had lived as a recluse（隐遁者, 寂寞者）. He used to sleep during the day and work at night, quite unaware of the fact that he had become the ghost of Endley. When h