However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.

不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉编辑，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围墙的1，084级台阶时，被抓了起来。

Hubert Latham took off from the French coast in his plane the 'Antoinette IV.

休伯特。莱瑟姆驾驶“安特瓦特4号”飞机从法国海岸起飞，

The idea never appealed to me very much,

一开始，他的这一想法没有引起我多大兴趣。

Glancing at it briefly, the dealer told him that it was worth $50.

古董商漫不经心看了一眼那幅画，告诉弗兰克那画值50英镑。

When he denied the train's existence,

他说根本没有这趟车。

It had broken down the previous summer, and though I promised to repair it, I had never got round to it.

那台割草机去年夏天就坏了，尽管我答应修，但一直没抽出时间，