新概念英语第三册5 The facts

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　　What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and

　　statistics?

　　Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their

　　readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been

　　instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's

　　palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the

　　first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of

　　steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace.' The editor

　　at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number

　　of steps and the height of the wall.

　　The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he

　　took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for

　　the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but

　　received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he

　　did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply,

　　the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.

　　A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only

　　had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However,

　　he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that

　　he had been arrested while counting the 1084 steps leading to the 15-foot wall

　　which surrounded the president's palace.

　　New words and expressions 生词与短语

　　editor

　　n. 编辑

　　extreme

　　n. 极端

　　statistics

　　n. 统计数字

　　journalist

　　n. 新闻记者

　　president

　　n. 总统

　　palace

　　n. 王宫;宏伟的住宅

　　publish

　　v. 出版

　　fax

　　n. 传真

　　impatient

　　adj. 不耐烦的

　　fire

　　v. 解雇

　　originally

　　adv. 起初，原先，从前

　　本文参考译文

　　报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供一些关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。稿子寄来后，编辑看第一句话就拒绝予以发表。文章的开头是这样的：“几百级台阶通向环绕总统的高墙。”编辑立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。

　　记者立即出发去核实这些重要的事实，但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来，在此期间，编辑等得不耐烦了，因为杂志马上要付印。他给记者先后发去两份传真，但对方毫无反应。于是他又发了一份传真，通知那位记者说，若再不迅速答复，将被解雇。但记者还是没有回复。编辑无奈，勉强按原样发稿了。一周之后，编辑终于接到记者的传真。那个可怜的记者不仅被捕了，而且还被送进了监狱。不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉编辑，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围墙的1，084级台阶时，被抓了起来。

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