From now on, he will wear a suit all day and others will call him 'Mr.Bloggs', not 'Alf'.

从此，艾尔弗可以一天到晚穿西服了。别人将称呼他为“布洛格斯先生”，而不再叫他“艾尔弗”了。

'It's a strange mixture I make myself. '

“这是一种我自己配制的奇特的混合物。”

During a radio programme, a company of biscuit manufacturers once asked listeners to bake biscuits and send them to their factory.

有一次，在电台播放的节目里，一个生产饼干的公司请听众烘制饼干送到他们的工厂去。

In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable.

在19世纪，小说家常在小说结尾处给读者准备一系列的巧合——大部分是牵强附会，极不可能的。

I have always regarded the country as something you look at through a train window, or something you occasional visit during the weekend.

总认为乡村是透过火车车窗看到的那个样了，或偶尔周末去游玩一下景象。

I would not hear of the suggestion and said that I would fix it myself.

我不愿听妻子的建议，说我自己会修。