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[00:03.80]36 百万分之一的机遇
[00:07.60]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:15.99]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:24.37]What was the chance in a million?
[00:26.71]什么是百万分之一的机遇?
[00:29.05]We are less credulous than we used to be.
[00:30.72]我们不再像以往那样轻易相信别人了.
[00:32.39]In the nineteenth century,
[00:33.32]在19世纪,
[00:34.25]a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion
[00:36.08]小说家常在小说结尾处
[00:37.90]by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences
[00:40.03]给读者准备一系列巧合
[00:42.16]most of them wildly improbable.
[00:43.78]大部分是牵强附会,极不可能的
[00:45.40]Readers happily accepted the fact
[00:46.72]当时的读者却愉快地接受这样事实
[00:48.04]that an obscure maidservant was really the hero's mother
[00:50.26]一个低贱的女佣实际上是主人公的母亲.
[00:52.48]A long-lost brother,who was presumed dead,
[00:54.22]主人公一位长期失散的兄弟,大家都以为死了
[00:55.95]was really alive all the time
[00:57.23]实际上一直活着,
[00:58.51]and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero's downfall.And so on
[01:01.19]并且正在策划暗算主人公,如此等等.