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A Soldier's Brilliant Idea
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Mr. Robinson had to travel somewhere on business, and as he was in a hurry, he decided to go by air. He liked sitting beside a window when he was flying, so when he got on to the plane, he looked for a window seat. He found all of them had already had been taken except for one. There was a soldier sitting in the seat beside this one, and Mr. Robinson was surprised that he had not taken the one by the window. So he at once went towards it.
羅賓遜先生要去出趟差。因為有些急，他決定乘飛機(jī)。乘飛機(jī)時，他喜歡坐靠窗的位置，因此剛登上飛機(jī)，他就找靠窗的座位。他發(fā)現(xiàn)只有一個靠窗的座位還空著。在那個空座位邊上坐著一名士兵。羅賓遜先生感到很意外，這個士兵并沒有坐靠窗的位置。于是羅賓遜先生馬上朝那個空座位走了過去。
When he reached it, however, he saw that there was a notice on it. It was written in ink and said, "This seat is preserved for proper load balance, thank you." Mr. Robinson had never seen such an unusual notice in a plane before, but he thought that the plane must be carrying something particularly heavy in it, so he walked on and found another empty seat, not beside a window, to sit in.
然而，等到了那兒，他看見座位上貼著一張告示，用鋼筆寫著：“為保持裝載平衡，特意預(yù)留出該座位。謝謝。”羅賓遜先生還從來沒有在飛機(jī)上見過如此不同尋常的告示。不過，他想飛機(jī)上一定裝了特別重的物品，于是他接著找了個不靠窗的空位，坐了下來。
Two or three people tried to sit in the window seat beside the soldier, but they too read the notice and went on, when the plane was nearly full, a very beautiful girl hurried into the plane. The soldier, who was watching the passengers coming in, quickly took the notice off the seat beside himself and in this way succeeded in having the company of the girl during the whole trip.
又有兩三個乘客想坐在士兵旁邊那個靠窗的座位，但是他們看到那則告示就走開了。當(dāng)飛機(jī)快坐滿時，一位非常漂亮的姑娘急匆匆地走進(jìn)機(jī)艙。那個士兵一直在留意進(jìn)艙的乘客，趕緊拿掉旁邊空位上的告示。用這種辦法，那個士兵成功地找到了一位姑娘和他一路同行。
