【New words and expressions】（2）

station          n. （警察）局

most             adv. 相当，非常

★station      n. (警察)局 (一定是与军方, 警方有关系的)

post office       邮局 

police office     警局

I went to the police.     我去警察局

communication bureau   交通局 （bureau [bjuE5rEu, 5bjuErEu]   n. 局）

★most   adv. 相当, 非常

① adj. 用于最高级，表示“最……”

This is the most beautiful car I’ve even seen.

② adj. 大多数的，大部分的

Most doctors don’t smoke.

③ adv. 非常，很（相当于very，但通常用于表达主观感情、见解等）

只有加“the”时译为“最”，加“a”或什么也不加时译为“非常，相当”(“very” 的概念)，常与形容词作用的过去分词连用。

a most interesting book   非常有趣的书

I was most surprised when I heard the news.   我非常惊讶 

【Text】

Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried any more. At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. Ted was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen !

参考译文

丹·鲁宾逊焦虑了整整一个星期. 上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封信, 要他到警察局去一趟. 丹奇怪警察为什么找他, 但昨天还是去了, 结果他不再担心了. 在警察局里, 一位面带笑容的警察告诉他, 他的自行车找到了. 那位警察对他说, 那辆自行车是5天前在400英里外的一个小村里发现的, 现在正用火车给他运回家来. 丹听到这个消息后, 惊奇万分, 但又感到非常好笑, 因为他从未指望那辆自行车还能找到. 这是20年前丹还是一个15岁的孩子时被人偷走的!