Unit-5-Lifelong-Eucation课文翻译大学体验英语三.docVIP

Unit 5 Lifelong Education Passage?A Tongue-tied Several weeks ago I was riding in a cab when the drivers eyes caught mine in the rear view mirror and he said, Excuse me, Miss? Can you help me? 　 As any hard-bitten city dweller knows, the correct answer to a question like Can you help me? should always be some version of It depends. I chirped, Sure. 　Thank you, he said. He passed a slip of yellow paper into the back seat. 　 I stared at the paper, wondering. Was this a joke? A threat? Hand-printed on the paper in tiny block letters was this: 　　proverb 　　peculiar 　　idiomatic 　 　　Please,