练习材料：
L60-3: Too early and too late
太早和太晚
An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a train and still to see it go off without you. Such an experience befell a certain young girl the first time she was traveling alone.
She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due, since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to miss it and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet her. She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket. To her horror he said that she was two hours too soon. She felt in her handbag for the piece of paper on which her father had written down all the details of the journey and gave it to the porter. He agreed that a train did come into the station at the time on the paper and that it did stop, but only to take on mail, not passengers.
ən ˈiːvən ˈhɑːdə ˌsɪtjʊˈeɪʃən ɪz tuː biː ɒn ðə ˈplætfɔːm ɪn gʊd taɪm fɔːr ə treɪn ænd stɪl tuː siː ɪt gəʊ ɒf wɪˈðaʊt juː. sʌʧ ən ɪksˈpɪərɪəns bɪˈfɛl ə ˈsɜːtn jʌŋ gɜːl ðə fɜːst taɪm ʃiː wɒz ˈtrævlɪŋ əˈləʊn.
ʃiː ˈɛntəd ðə ˈsteɪʃən ˈtwɛnti ˈmɪnɪts bɪˈfɔː ðə treɪn wɒz djuː, sɪns hɜː ˈpeərənts hæd ɪmˈprɛst əˈpɒn hɜː ðæt ɪt wʊd biː ˌʌnfəˈgɪvəbl tuː mɪs ɪt ænd kɔːz ðə frɛndz wɪð huːm ʃiː wɒz ˈgəʊɪŋ tuː steɪ tuː meɪk tuː ˈʤɜːniz tuː miːt hɜː. ʃiː geɪv hɜː ˈlʌgɪʤ tuː ə ˈpɔːtər ænd ʃəʊd hɪm hɜː ˈtɪkɪt. tuː hɜː ˈhɒrə hiː sɛd ðæt ʃiː wɒz tuː ˈaʊəz tuː suːn. ʃiː fɛlt ɪnˈhɪə ˈhændbæg fɔː ðə piːs ɒv ˈpeɪpər ɒn wɪʧ hɜː ˈfɑːðə hæd ˈrɪtn daʊn æl ðə ˈdiːteɪlz ɒv ðə ˈʤɜːni ænd geɪv ɪt tuː ðə ˈpɔːtə. hiː əˈgriːd ðæt ə treɪn dɪd kʌm ˈɪntuː ðə ˈsteɪʃən æt ðə taɪm ɒn ðə ˈpeɪpər ænd ðæt ɪt dɪd stɒp, bʌt ˈəʊnli tuː teɪk ɒn meɪl, nɒt ˈpæsɪnʤəz.
更难堪的情况是虽然及时赶到站台上，却眼睁睁地看着那趟火车启动，把你抛下。一个小姑娘第一次单独出门就碰到了这种情况。
在火车进站20分钟前她就进了车站。因为她的父母再三跟她说，如果误了这趟车，她的东道主朋友就得接她两趟，这是不应该的。她把行李交给搬运工并给他看了车票。搬运工说她早到了两个小时，她听后大吃一惊。她从钱包里摸出一张纸条，那上面有她父亲对这次旅行详细说明，她把这张纸条交给了搬运工。搬运工说，正如纸条所说，确有一趟火车在那个时刻到站，但它只停站装邮件，不载旅客。
任务配置：L0、L3、L4
知识笔记：
单词与短语
练习感悟：补作业一。
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