Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.
詹姆斯 . 斯科特先生在锡尔伯里有一个汽车修理部，现在他刚在平赫斯特买了另一个汽车修理部。
has a garage 中 has 是个实义动词 , 拥有 ;
garage n. 车行 车库 ; now adv. 现在 此刻 , 常与进行时使用 , 此处意为 到现在为止 , 与完成时态连用 ;
another 其它多个中的一个 ; one ... the other ... 一个 ... 另一个 ...; 现在完成时 [ have/has done] 主要用于以下两种情况 : 1, 表示在过去不确定
的时间里发生的并与现在有着某种联系的动作 2, 表示开始于过去并持续到现在的动作 ;
Mr. James Scott who has a garage in Silbury now has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. A garage in Pinhurst now has just been bought by Mr. James Scott who has another garage in Silbury.
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.
平赫特离锡尔伯里只有 5 英里，但詹姆斯 . 斯科特先生未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到一部电话机，所以他买了只鸽子。
Pinhurst is only five miles (away) from Silbury.
介词 from 作 " 距 ..." " 离 ..." 讲 , 常与 away 连用 , away 常可以省略 ,
如 : It is far (away) from here. 离这里很远 ;
How far (away) is the bus stop? ;
距离的表达方式 : Pinhurst is five miles (away) from Silbur. ; get vt. 得到 弄来 ;
Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage in Pinhurst which is only five miles from Silbury.
It is hard for Mr. Scott to get by without a telephone and he can not find one for his new garage which has just been bought by Mr. James Scott.
so conj. 所以 ; but conj. 表转折 ; and conj. 连接平行对等结构 ; pigeon n 鸽子 ; It's not my pigeon.= None of my business. 这不是我的过错。
Because he can not find a phone for his new garage, twelve pigeons have been bought by him to send private letters from one garage to the other. Being unable to get a phone for his new garage, he has just bought twelve pigeons to carry letters.
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特带到锡尔伯里。
carry v. 提 搬 拿 , 此处意为 送 ;
message n. 信息 ( 可数名词 ) information 信息（不可数名词 )
a piece of information; from ..to ... 从 .. 到 ...;
The first message was carried from Pinhurst to Silbury by one of the hard-working pigeons yesterday.
One of the twelve pigeons which were bought by Mr. James Scott flew from Pinhurst to Silbury to send the first message.
The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
这只鸟只用了 3 分钟就飞完了全程。
bird n. 鸟 , 指上文中的 pigeon;
cover v. 覆盖 盖住 , 此处为走完一段路程 ;
distance n. 距离 路程 ; in three minutes 用３分钟 ;
Yesterday the bird which carried the first message covered the distance from Pinhurst to Silbury in three minutes. The first
message which was carried by a pigeon reached it's destination in three minutes.
Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages.
到目前为止，斯科特先生从一个汽车修理部向另一个发送了大量索取备件的信件和其他紧急函件。
up to now = up till now 到现在为止,作时间状语,句子的时态多用现在完成时 ;
request n.v. 要求 请求 ;
spare adj. 不用的 闲置的 备用的v.饶恕抽出匀出不遗余力 n. 备用品;
spare no efforts 不遗余力做 ;
spare part 备件 = sparepart ; spare time 业余时间 ;
spare tire 备胎 ;
a great many, great 表示数量很大 , 只能同可数名词的复数连用 = a great number of, a lot of 许多 ;
urgent adj. 紧急的 ; urgently adv. 紧急地 迫切地 ;
urgency n. 紧急 急迫 ; emergency n. 急诊 突发事件 紧急情况 ;
emergency room 急诊室 ; ambulance n. 救护车 ;
from one garage to the other. from one to the other 从一个到另一个 ;
other adj. 其它的 ; one ... the other... 一个 ... 另一个 ( 两者 );
Up till now, a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages have been sent by Mr. Scott who employs pigeons
to carry messages from one place to the other. Up to now, a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages were
carried from one garage to the other by those pigeons to Mr. Scott who was both the sender and receiver of those requests.
In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.
就这样，他开始自己的私人“电话”业务。
in this way 就这样 以这种方式 ;
by the way 顺便问 / 说一下 ; in the way 妨碍 挡住 ;
on the way 去 ... 的路上 ; in a way 从某种意义上 ;
begin-began-begun v. 开始 = start ;
service n. 业务 服务 ;
at your service = I 'm gald to be at your service 我乐意为您效劳 ;
serve v. 服务 servant n. 仆人 server n. 服务器 ;
his own: sb's own 某人自己的 ; on his own 他独自 : on sb's own 独自 = by oneself ;
|By employing those pigeons to carry messages from one garage to the other, Mr. Scott's own private 'telephone' service has begun. The employment of those pigeons has enabled Mr. Scott's own private 'telephone' service to start.