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[00:05.30]49 理想的仆人
[00:10.61]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:13.28]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:15.96]What was Bessie's 'little weakness'?
[00:19.64]贝西的"小小弱点"是什么?
[00:23.33]It is a good thing my aunt Harriet died years ago.
[00:25.85]我的姑妈哈丽特好多年前就去世了,这倒是件好事.
[00:28.37]If she were alive today
[00:30.35]如果她活到今天,
[00:32.34]she would not be able to air her views on her favourite topic of conversation:
[00:35.46]她将不能就她热衷的话题"佣人"发表意见了.
[00:38.58]domestic servants.
[00:40.22]她热衷的话题是:佣人.
[00:41.85]Aunt Harriet lived in that leisurely age
[00:44.28]哈丽特生活在一个悠闲的年代,
[00:46.71]when servants were employed to do housework.
[00:48.84]家务事都由雇来的佣人代劳.
[00:50.96]She had a huge,rambling country house called 'The Gables'.
[00:54.30]她在乡下有一幢巨大杂乱的房子,叫做"山墙庄园".
[00:57.63]She was sentimentally attached to this house,
[00:59.90]她对这幢房子在感情上难舍难分,
[01:02.17]for even though it was far too big for her needs,
[01:04.65]因为虽然房子实在太大,
[01:07.13]she persisted in living there long after her husband's death.