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After Twenty Years
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The short story "After Twenty Years" (1)____________(以……为背景) New York on a cold, dark night. Most people have left work to go home, and this part of the city is now quiet. A policeman who is (2)____________(巡查这一带) sees a man outside a shop. He (3)____________(走上前去) the man and finds he (4)____________(脸上有一道伤疤). They (5)____________(聊聊天) and the man starts to tell his story.
"Twenty years ago tonight," said the man, " I dined here at 'Big Joe' Brady's with Jimmy Wells, (6)____________(我最好的朋友), and the finest chap in the world. He and I (7)________(被抚养长大) here in New York, just like two brothers, together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to (8)____________(发财致富). You couldn't have dragged Jimmy out of New York; he thought it was (9)____________(世上唯一的好地方). Well, we agreed that night that we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time, (10)____________(无论什么) our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our (11)____________(命运有所成就) and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be."
"It (12)____________(听起来很有趣), " said the policeman."(13)____________(相当长的时间) between meets, though, it seems to me. Haven't you (14)________(收到……的来信) your friend since you left?"
"Well, yes, (15)____________(有一段时间) we corresponded, " said the other. "But after a year or two we (16)____________(失去联系) each other. You see, the West is a pretty big proposition, and I (17)____________(不停地四处奔波) over it pretty lively. But I know Jimmy will meet me here if he's alive, for he always was (18)____________(最忠实最坚定的老朋友) in the world. He'll never forget. I (19)____________(千里迢迢赶来) to stand in this door tonight, and it's worth it if my old partner (20)________(露面、出现)."
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is set in
以……为背景
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checking the area
巡查这一带
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goes up to
走上前去
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has a scar on his face
脸上有一道伤疤
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have a chat
聊聊天
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my best chum
我最好的朋友
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were raised
被抚养长大
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make my fortune
发财致富
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the only place on earth
世上唯一的好地方
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no matter what
无论什么
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destiny worked out
命运有所成就
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sounds pretty interesting
听起来很有趣
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Rather a long time
相当长的时间
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heard from
收到……的来信
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for a time
有一段时间
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lost track of
失去联系
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kept hustling around
不停地四处奔波
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the truest, staunchest old chap
最忠实最坚定的老朋友
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came a thousand miles
千里迢迢赶来
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turns up
露面、出现
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