S2 - Lesson 5 - No wrong numbers
Words
pigeon
dove
message
urgent messages
short messages
distance
n. adj.
distance, distant
difference, different
importance, important
confidence, confident
convenience, convenient.
request
send request.
refuse request
spare part
spare time
a spare room
I cannot spare the time. [节省]
He spared the slave's live. [饶恕]
Content
No wrong numbers
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.
I love you.
Always have, always will.
= I always have loved you, and I always will love you.
= Forever
Snow covered the ground
We covered five miles on foot yesterday.
The bird covered five miles in three minutes.
The book covered 10 chapters.
I laughed to cover my nervousness.
Cover me! I'm going in.