歌词
--- Lesson 65 Jumbo versus the police
小象对警察
--- First listen and then answer the question.
^听录音，然后回答以下问题。
--- Why did the police have to push Jumbo off the main street?
警察为什么要把江伯推出主要街道？
Last Christmas, the circus owner, Jimmy Gates, decided to take some presents to a children's hospital.
^去年圣诞节，马戏团老板吉米.盖茨决定送些礼物给儿童医院。
Dressed up as Father Christmas and accompanied by a 'guard of honour' of six pretty girls,
^他打扮成圣诞老人，在由6个漂亮姑娘组成的“仪仗队”的陪同下，
he set off down the main street of the city riding a baby elephant called Jumbo.
^骑上一头名叫江伯的小象，沿着城里的主要街道出发了。
He should have known that the police would never allow this sort of thing.
^他本该知道警察绝不会允许这类事情发生。
A policeman approached Jimmy and told him he ought to have gone along a side street as Jumbo was holding up the traffic.
^一个警察走过来告诉吉米，他应该走一条小路，因为江泊阻碍了交通。
Though Jimmy agreed to go at once, Jumbo refused to move.
^虽然吉米同意马上就走，但江伯却拒绝移动。
Fifteen policemen had to push very hard to get him off the main street.^
15个警察不得不用很大的力气把它推离主要街道。
The police had a difficult time, but they were most amused.
^警察虽然吃了苦头，但他们还是感到很有趣。
'Jumbo must weigh a few tons,' said a policeman afterwards,^“
江伯一定有好几吨重，”一个警察事后这样说，
'so it was fortunate that we didn't have to carry him.^“
值得庆幸的是它没让我们抬它走。
Of course, we should arrest him, but as he has a good record, we shall let him off this time.'
^当然，我们应该逮捕它，但由于它一贯表现很好，这次我们饶了它。”
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