【新概念英语2】【20250102】 Lesson 5 No wrong numbers

新概念英语第二册课文:Lesson 5 No wrong numbers_新概念_新东方在线 (koolearn.com)

【原文】

Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.

Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons.

Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury.

The bird covered the distance in three minutes.

Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private‘telephone’service.

【解析】

时间状语：Up to now（到目前为止）

“a great many”修饰名词时，通常放在名词前面，表示数量上的多。

“requests”在这里是复数形式，因为“a great many”后面通常跟复数名词。

“In this way”是一个固定短语，表示“以这种方式”或“这样”。它通常用于引导方式状语从句或作为句子的状语，说明动作发生的方式或方法。