A  VISITOR   来访者

Jack正在工作。在某个重要电话将要结束的时候，同事Ann Carter走了过来。

Jack  (对着电话) Yes, he had already done that when I spoke to him.

Caller  Good. Well, I’ll see you next week.

Jack  Yes, I’m looking forward to it. Bye.

Caller  Goodbye.

(敲门的声音)

Jack  Come in.

Ann  Hello, Jack.

Jack  Hello, Ann. How are you?

Ann  Fine, thanks. Can I sit down?

Jack  Of course.

Ann  Thank you. I met an old friend of yours last week.

Jack  Oh, yes? Who?

Ann  Margaret Shaw.

Jack  Really？How is she?

Ann  Very well.

Jack  Where did you meet her?

Ann   At her office in Berlin.

Jack  Had you been to her office before?

Ann  No, I hadn’t . In fact, I hadn’t been to berlin before weeke.

Jack  Had you met Margaret before?

Ann  Yes, I had, but only briefly, and that was some years ago.

Jack  I see.

Ann  Jack?

Jack  Yes?

*look forward to  盼望              *Berlin  柏林（德国城市）          *briefly  adv.短暂地

 

WHAT KIND OF PERSON IS SHE？   她是什么样的人？

现在让我们回到两的对话中来，看看刚才引起大家兴趣的那个疑问的答案。

Ann  How well do you know margaret Shaw?

Jack  I met fher for the first time about five years.a go, but I had known her long before that. Even though we hadn’t met, we had commujnicated by letter and I had spoken to her on the telephone many times, because her sompany was one of our best clients.

Ann  I see. What do you think of her?

Jack  In what way?

Ann  What kind of person is hse?

Jack  I think hse is very clever, and she knows this business very well.

Ann  But?

Jack  There is something about her that I don’t like, and I’m not sure that IO really trust her.

AA  Mm, interested in my opinion of Margaret Shaw?

Ann  Because paul West very interested in her.

Jack  In what way?

Ann  I think Paul is about to offer her a job.

Jack  A job?

Ann  Yes.

Jack  Oh, dear.

Ann  Mm.

*even though  尽管，即使         *communicate  v.交流         *client  n. 客户        

*trust v. 相信                    * opinion  n. 意见            *offer  v. 提供