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An Ad
After a beautiful purebred puppy wandered onto our back porch and made himself at home, my husband composed an ad for the“Lost and found”column of the local newspaper. It read: “A puppy, male, approximately nine months old, no collar, very friendly, found on Rockbridge Road.”
I feared all the detail might encourage an unscrupulous person to claim the dog. As I methodically explained why each clue revealed too much, my husband dutifully crossed out the words. Finally, in frustration, he rewrote the ad, reducing it to a single sentence that I couldn"t refute.
It read:“Guess what I found?”
Nofes：
(1) purebred 纯种的
(2) puppy 小狗；幼犬
(3) porch 门廊
(4) compose 构思；作
(5) approximately 将近
(6) collar 领子（狗等的）项圈
(7) unscrupulous 无耻的
(8) methodically 有条不紊地
(9) clue 线索
(10) reveal 透露
(11) dutifully 尽职地
(12) cross out 画横线以删除项圈
(13) frustration 挫折
(14) refute 反驳
广 告
一只漂亮的纯种狗来到我们的后门廊并以此为家了。我丈夫为当地的“失物招领”栏目构思了一则广告，是这样写的：“小狗，雄性，近九个月年龄，无项圈，很友善，发现于石桥路。”
我害怕这样的细节会给那些昧着良心要狗的人以可乘之机。我有条不紊地解释每个线索都怎样透露出太多，我丈夫边听边尽职地划去一些词。终于，他很为难地重新写了广告，把它缩为一个我无法反驳的句子。
是这样写的：“猜猜我发现了什么？”
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整理：鲁蒙海
编辑：董 董
审核：海 新
终审：张 扬
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