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有一次，马克•吐温和两个朋友在饭馆里坐着。一个朋友刚从佛蒙特旅行回来。这位朋友说佛蒙特的大山里空气非常清新。在许多地方，一个声音的回音要比原来的声音大五倍。 第二位朋友说那没有什么，在他居住的科罗拉多的许多地方，早上发出的一个声音，它的回音要到下午才能返回。 马克•吐温大笑起来，说道："你们说的那些回音确实不同寻常。但是在我出生的密苏里的一个小教堂里，那里有个回音比你们说的那些回音更不同寻常。” "那里的回音有什么特别的？ ” 一个问。 “好吧，我来告诉你们。"马克•吐温说，‘‘那个教堂里的回音真的不同寻常，如果一个人大声问：早上好！你好吗？过一会儿，回音会清楚地回答:非常好，谢谢。你好吗？" Unusual Echoes Once Mark Twain and two friends were sitting in a restaurant. One friend had just returned from a trip to Vermont The friend said that the air in the mountains of Vermont was very clear. In many places the echo of a voice came back five times stronger than the original voice. The second friend said that was nothing. In Colorado,where he lived,in many places the echo of a voice spoken in the morning came back in the afternoon. Mark Twain laughed. Then he said, Listen! The echoes which you have told about are very unusual. But in a small church in Missouri, where I was born,there is an echo more unusual than those. “What is so strange about the echo there?” asked one of them. “Well, I will tell you,"said Mark Twain. "The echo in that church is so unusual that if one asks in a loud voice ： Good Morning! How are you? The echo repeats very clearly after a moment：Very well,thank you. And how are you?" |
