The Queer Feet • G.K. Chesterton

Chương 1: The Twelve True Fishermen

Đoạn 1/27 (Câu 1–5)

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If you meet a member of that select club, “The Twelve True Fishermen,” entering the Vernon Hotel for the annual club dinner, you will observe, as he takes off his overcoat, that his evening coat is green and not black.

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Bản thu âm chuẩn phát âm US English • Engvera Editorial

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Câu 1

Câu 2

If (supposing that you have the star-defying audacity to address such a being) you ask him why, he will probably answer that he does it to avoid being mistaken for a waiter.

Câu 3

You will then retire crushed.

Câu 4

But you will leave behind you a mystery as yet unsolved and a tale worth telling.

Câu 5

If (to pursue the same vein of improbable conjecture) you were to meet a mild, hard-working little priest, named Father Brown, and were to ask him what he thought was the most singular luck of his life, he would probably reply that upon the whole his best stroke was at the Vernon Hotel, where he had averted a crime and, perhaps, saved a soul, merely by listening to a few footsteps in a passage.

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mistakenverb

US /mɪsˈteɪkən/

To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another

“If (supposing that you have the star-defying audacity to address such a being) you ask him why, he will probably answer that he does it to avoid being mistaken for a waiter.”

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Narrator:If you meet a member of that select club, “The Twelve True Fishermen,” entering the Vernon Hotel for the annual club dinner, you will observe, as he takes off his overcoat, that his evening coat is green and not black.

Speaker:If (supposing that you have the star-defying audacity to address such a being) you ask him why, he will probably answer that he does it to avoid being mistaken for a waiter.