L5-(1): The facts
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.
extreme [ɪkˈstriːm] 极端 go to extreme 走向极端
statistics [stəˈtɪstɪks] 统计数字 ，统计学
journalist [ˈdʒɜːrnəlɪst] 新闻记者
instruct [ɪnˈstrʌkt] 指示;通知;命令;吩咐 委托
palace [ˈpæləs] 王宫 宏伟的住宅
publish [ˈpʌblɪʃ] 出版
obtain [əbˈteɪn] 获得;(尤指经努力)赢得;
go to press 交付印刷
这真是一个无聊到极端，抓不住重点的可笑编辑。进入第三册，音频的语速越来越快了，要想完全跟上这样的新闻联播式的语速，我还需要太多太多的练习。
今天，德约成就了十全十美的澳网十冠王。很多人都为他赛后在家人和团队中释放激动的情绪和留下的泪水而感动。这里面包含了过去这一年太多的艰难、委屈、不易。那些打不败德约的过往终将使德约变得更加强大。为他骄傲，为他欣慰，也十分心疼。。。
