练习材料：[Day 2746 2022-04-02]
L37-2：The Westhaven Express
Neither was I surprised when the train stopped at Widley,a tiny station a few miles along the line.Even a mingty express train can be held up by signals.But when the train dawdled at station after station, I began to wonder, It suddenly dawned on me that this express was not roaring down the line at ninety miles an hour, but barely chugging along at thirty. One hour and seventeen minutes passed and we had not even covered half the distance. I asked a passenger if this was the Westhaven Express, but he had not even heard of it. I determined to lodge a complaint as soon as we arrived. Two hours later, I was talking angrily to the station master at Westhaven. When he denied the train's existence, I borrowed his copy of the timetable. There was a note of triumph in my voice when I told him that it was there in black and white. Glancing at it briefly, he told me to look again. A tiny asterisk conducted me to a footnote at the bottom of the page. It said: “This service has been suspended.”
知识笔记：mighty,signal,dawdle,roar,chug,passenger,lodge,triumph,asterisk,发音;mighty,dawdle,chug,lodge,complaint,triumph,asterisk,conduct,词义。
练习感悟：43’。
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