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181.Adjusting to Rain
It was quitting time and still raining cats and dogs!
下班時間到了，可還在下傾盆大雨！
How were they supposed to hold the rally now? Mark racked his brains for what to do!
現在他們該怎樣舉行這次集會呢？馬克絞盡腦汁在想辦法！
He could put a rain check on the event! No, that wouldn't work!
他可以宣布下次再邀請大家參加這個活動！不，這不行！
They had worked so hard to rally people around this event that they would never be able to gain the same momentum.
他們費了那么大的勁才把大家聚到一起，以后不會再有那么大的動力了。
And if their effort failed because of a cancelled event, historians raking over the ashes of what had happened would mark it as the turning point!
如果因為活動取消使他們的努力失敗，那些喜歡舊事重提的歷史學家們 將把它看成是一個轉折點！
They had to stay the course as they had planned, come rain or shine!
無論晴雨，他們得按原計劃貫徹始終！
And so he walked outside. It was raining down hard! No one would show up! Dam!
就這樣他走到了外面。雨下得正大！不會有人來了！該死的！
When Mark arrived, no one was present! Then a woman ran out to direct him to a building!
馬克到的時候，別人都沒有來！這時一個女人跑出來，指示他去一座大樓！
When he walked into a large room he raised his eyebrows-it was packed with people!
走進一間大屋子，馬克不禁豎起了眉毛--那里擠滿了人！
Everyone was there! The event wouldn't be rained out after all because someone else had moved the location!
大家都在那里!這次活動不會因雨中斷，因為有人把場地給換了！
And he knew who must have directed the change! When he saw Elizabeth he raised his hat to her! But she just smiled and pointed to Alex!
馬克知道是誰那樣干的！看到伊麗莎白，他向她表示了敬意！而她只是笑著指了指亞歷克斯！
Alex? He ranked among the most idiotic of the people focused only on raising money in the organization!
亞歷克斯？他可是屬于最白癡的那種人，只會在組織里干點籌款的事兒。
Oh, well, Mark was happy for the help! As he slowly ranged from one person to the other in search of Alex he almost laughed-it was a weird twist of fate!
啊，對了，馬克為這次幫忙感到髙興！當他在人群中挨個兒慢慢尋找亞歷克斯時，他幾乎笑了起來--命運真會捉弄人！
Alex was also the son of the businessman they were campaigning against!
亞歷克斯也是那個正遭到他們聲討的商人的兒子！
That made Mark feel great, and he knew that whether it was raining in buckets or not, they were going to raise the roof tonight!
這使馬克感覺很好，他知道無論外面是否在下傾盆大雨，今天晚上他們肯定會好好慶祝一番！
