評論
打印
At a Border Station
在邊境車站
A train stopped at a French border station. The passengers opened their trunks, and waited for the inspection of their things. One of the passengers in first-class carriage took a lot of boxes of cigarettes out of his trunk and wanted to put all of them into his pockets.
一列火車停在法國邊境車站。旅客們都打開自己的皮箱，等待檢查。頭等車廂的一個乘客從他的皮箱里拿出許多盒香煙，想把它們全部裝進自己的口袋。
When his pockets were already full of cigarettes and he could not put any more into them, he said to another man who was at the window:
他的口袋已經裝滿了香煙，再也裝不進去了，他就對坐在窗口的一個人說：
"Will you please take some of these boxes and put them into your pockets?"
“請你拿上幾盒煙放到你口袋里好嗎？”
"Why don't you leave them in your trunk?" asked the other passenger.
“你為什么不放在皮箱里呢？”那個乘客問道。
"Because I don't want to pay duty on them," answered the first passenger.
“因為我不想交稅。”第一個乘客說。
"All right," said the passenger at the window. "Give them to me. But I must tell you now that I shall not return them to you."
“好吧，”窗口的那個乘客說，“把它們給我。可是我現在必須告訴你，我不會還你了。”
"Why?"
“為什么？”
"Because I am a French customs officer."
“因為我是法國海關官員。”
