慢速英语短文听力 禁停标志

The New "No Parking" Sign

禁停标志

It was noon on Wednesday. "That's not fair. That's not right," Mel told Irene. He parked his car every night. He parked his car on the street. "Look. The pole is in fresh cement¹," he said. "The cement is still wet." It was a new parking sign. It said, "No Parking 9:30AM-11AM Wednesday." The old parking sign was different. The old sign had said, "No Parking 1PM-2:30PM Wednesday." "My neighbors and I park on this street," said Mel. "We know that we can't park here from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. But early this morning they changed the sign. Did they warn us? Did they say anything to us? No, but they told parking enforcement²! Parking enforcement wrote 25 tickets this morning! Twenty-five tickets! I counted them! Each ticket is $48. We were all going to move our cars before 1:00. Now it's too late. Why didn't they warn us?"

周三中午。梅尔对伊琳娜说：“这不公平，这不对。”他每天晚上都会把车停在这里。他将车停在了大街上。他说：“看，杆子上的字还是新的，接合剂还是湿的。”这个停车标志是新的。上面写着：“周三，早9点半到11点禁止停车。”老停车标识不是这么写的。之前的停车标识写着：“周三，下午1点到2点半禁止停车。”梅尔说：“我和我的邻居都把车停在了这条街上。我们知道下午1点到2点半不能停车。但是就在早上，他们更改了标识。他们警告我们了吗？他们跟我们说什么了吗？没有，但是他们对执法人员说了！执法人员一上午开了25张罚单！25张罚单！我计算了一下！每张罚单48美元。我们要在1点之前将车移走。现在太晚了。他们为什么没有警告我们？

1 cement   

n.水泥；胶结材料；vt.粘结；巩固

参考例句：

• We need 100 tons of cement at most for this project.这项工程满打满算有一百吨水泥就足够了。
• Let's cement the parts together.咱们来把这些部件粘接在一起吧。

2 enforcement   

n.实施, 执行

参考例句：

• MPs called for tougher enforcement of the existing laws on drugs. 下院议员呼籲加强现行毒品法律的执行力度。
• The court is ineffective because it lacks the necessary enforcement machinery. 法院效率低是因为缺乏必要的执行机制。