歌词
--- lesson 40 Who's who
真假难辨
--- Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
^听录音，然后回答以下问题。
--- How did the policeman discover that the whole thing was a joke?
It has never been explained why university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else.
^谁也弄不清为什么大学生好像比任何人都更喜欢恶作剧。
Students specialize in a particular type of practical joke: the hoax.
^大学生擅长一种特殊的恶作剧--戏弄人。
Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-respecting student would ever indulge in.
^请消防队来扑灭一场根本没有的大火是一种低级骗局，有自尊心的大学生决不会去做。
Students often create amusing situations which are funny to everyone except the victims.
^大学生们常常做的是制造一种可笑的局面，使大家笑上一场，当然受害者是笑不出来的。
When a student recently saw two workmen using a pneumatic drill outside his university,
^最近有个学生看见两个工人在大学校门外用风钻干活，
he immediately telephoned the police and informed them that two students dressed up as workmen were tearing up the road with a pneumatic drill.
^马上打电话报告警察，说有两个学生装扮成工人，正在用风钻破坏路面。
As soon as he had hung up, he went over to the workmen and told them that if a policeman ordered them to go away, they were not to take him seriously.
^挂上电话后，他又马上来到工人那儿，告诉他们若有个警察来让他们走开，不要把他当回事；
He added that a student had dressed up as a policeman and was playing all sorts of silly jokes on people.
^还对工人说，有个学生常装扮成警察无聊地同别人开玩笑。
Both the police and the workmen were grateful to the student for this piece of advance information.
^警察与工人都对那个学生事先通报情况表示感谢。
The student hid in an archway nearby where he could watch and hear everything that went on.
^那个学生躲在附近一拱形的门廊里，在那儿可以看见、听到现场发生的一切。
Sure enough, a policeman arrived on the scene and politely asked the workmen to go away.
^果然，警察来了，有礼貌地请工人离开此地；
When he received a very rude reply from one of the workmen,
^但其中一个工人粗鲁地回了几句。
He threatened to remove them by force.
^于是警察威胁要强行使他们离开。
The workmen told him to do as he pleased and the policeman telephoned for help.
^工人说，悉听尊便。警察去打电话叫人。
Shortly afterwards, four more policemen arrived and remonstrated with the workmen.
^一会儿工夫，又来了4个警察，规劝工人离开。
As the men refused to stop working, the police attempted to seize the pneumatic drill.
^由于工人拒绝停下手中的活，警察想夺风钻。
The workmen struggled fiercely and one of them lost his temper.
^两个工人奋力抗争，其中一个发了火，
He threatened to call the police.
^威胁说要去叫警察。
At this, the police pointed out ironically that this would hardly be necessary as the men were already under arrest.
^警察听后讥讽地说，这大可不必，因为他俩已被逮捕了。
Pretending to speak seriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the station.
^其中一个工人装模作样地问道，在被带往警察局之前，是否可以打一个电话。
Permission was granted and a policeman accompanied him to a pay phone.
^警察同意了，陪他来到一个投币地电话前。
Only when he saw that the man was actually telephoning the police did he realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax.
^当他看到那个工人真的是给警察挂电话，才恍然大悟，原来他们都成了一场骗局的受害者。
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