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原文
How long had the police taken to find his bicycle?
Dan Robinson has been worried all week.
Last Tuesday he received a letter
from the local police.
In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
Dan wondered why
he was wanted by the police,
but he went to the station yesterday
and now he is not worried anymore.
At the station,
he was told by a smiling policeman
that his bicycle had been found.
Five days ago, the policeman told him,
the bicycle was picked up in a small village
four hundred miles away.
It is now being sent to his home by train.
Dan was most surprised
when he heard the news.
He was amused too,
because he never expected
the bicycle to be found.
It was stolen twenty years ago
when Dan was a boy of fifteen!
译文
警察花了多长时间才找到他的自行车?
丹·罗宾逊整个星期都一直很担心。
上周二,他收到了一封信。
来自当地警方。
信中要求他去一趟警察局。
丹想知道为什么。
警察找他有什么事。
但他昨天去车站了。
现在他不再担心了。
在车站里,
一位面带微笑的警察告诉他
他的自行车已经被找到了。
五天前,警察对他说:
这辆自行车是在一个小村庄里被发现的。
四百英里之外。
现在正通过火车运往他家。
丹感到非常惊讶。
当他听到这个消息时……
他也很觉得有趣。
因为他从没想过
这辆自行车还能被找到。
它是在二十年前被偷走的。
那是丹十五岁的时候!