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English Ẩn / hiện bản dịch
A Tricky Situation
An Englishman went to the seaside for his summer holiday. He asked the woman looking after his house to forward all the mail that arrived while he was away. She promised to do so.
He was enjoying a very relaxing holiday, but a month went by without a single letter. Thinking something must be wrong, he called her.
‘Why haven't you sent me any of my mail?’
‘Because you didn't leave me the key to the mailbox, sir.’
He apologized and promised to send her the key. On Sunday, he put it in an envelope, wrote the address on it, and posted it.
Another month passed, but still no letters arrived. At the end of the month, he returned home and complained angrily to the woman.
‘But what could I do, sir?’ the poor woman asked. ‘The mailbox key you sent me was inside the locked mailbox too!’
Từ vựng trong truyện
- forward: chuyển tiếp thư đến địa chỉ khác
- mailbox: hòm thư
- apologized: xin lỗi
- envelope: phong bì
- complained: phàn nàn