大学英语精读第三版第二册课文原文和翻译及课后习题fi6p88.docVIP

大学英语精读第三版第二册Unit 1 The?dinner?party??晚宴?I?first?heard?this?tale?in?India,?where?is?told?as?if?true?--?though?any?naturalist?would?know?it?couldnt?be.?Later?someone?told?me?that?the?story?appeared?in?a?magazine?shortly?before?the?First?World?War.?That?magazine?story,?and?the?person?who?wrote?it,?I?have?never?been?able?to?track?down.?我最初听到这个故事是在印度，那儿的人们今天讲起它来仍好像实有其事似的——尽管任何一位博物学家都知道这不可能是真的。后来有人告诉我，在第一次世界大战之后不久就出现在一本杂志上。但登在杂志上的那篇故事,?以及写那篇故事的人，我却一直未能找到。The?country?is?India.?A?colonial?official?and?his?wife?are?giving?a?large?dinner?party.?They?are?seated?with?their?guests?--?officers?and?