Stupid Question 愚蠢的問題

Dan was the doorman of a club in a big city. Everyday, thousands of people passed his door, and a lot of them stopped and asked him, "What's the time, please?"

丹在一個大城市的某個俱樂部當守門人。每天都有數千人經過他的門口，而且許多人都會停下來問他:“請問現在幾點？”

After a few months, Dan said to himself, "I'm not going to answer all those stupid people any more. I'm going to buy a big clock and put it upon the wall here." Then he did so.

“Now people aren't going to stop and ask me the time," he thought happily.

幾個月后，丹想:“我不想再回答這些蠢人提出的問題了，我要去買一只大鐘，把它掛在這兒的墻上?！庇谑撬I了一只鐘，把它掛在了墻上。

“現在人們總不會再停下來問我時間了。”他高興地想。

But after that, a lot of people stopped, looked at the clock and then asked Dan, "Is that clock right?”

可是打那以后，每天仍有許多人停下來，看看鐘，然后問丹:“這鐘準嗎？”

1.a lot of

a lot of表示大量的，既可以接可數，也可以接不可數。

這點和plenty of，lots of是一樣的。

其后只可以接不可數名詞的：a great deal of，much，quite a little,a large amount of.

其后只可接可數名詞的：a great/good many,quite a few,a good/great/large number of.

2.any more

any more用于短暫性動詞，而any longer用于延續性動詞。兩個都是不再的意思。