Lesson 5

Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.
詹姆斯·斯科特先生在西尔伯里有一家修理厂，现在他刚刚在平赫斯特又买了一家。
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.
平赫斯特距离西尔伯里只有五英里，但斯科特先生无法为他的新修理厂装上电话，所以他刚刚买了十二只鸽子。
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了西尔伯里。
The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
这只鸟在三分钟内飞完了这段距离
Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.
直到现在，斯科特先生已经通过一个修理厂向另一个修理厂发送了大量的备件请求和其他紧急信息。
In this way, he has begun his own private telephone service.
以这种方式，他已经开始了他自己的私人电话业务。