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英语翻译Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the fronti

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英语翻译
Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier(边境) to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私) anything into the country.Every evening except at weekends,he would see a factory worker coming up the hill towards the frontier,pushing a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it.When the bicycle reached the frontier,Henry used to stop the man and make him take the straw off and untie it.Then he would examine the straw carefully to see whether he could find anything,after which he would look in all the man's pockets before he let him tie the straw again.The man would then put it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it.Although Henry was always expecting to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things hidden in the straw,he never found anything ,even though he examined it very carefully.He was sure that the man was smuggling something,but he was not able to imagine what it could be.
Then one evening,after he had looked through the straw and emptied the worker's pockets as usual,he said to him," Listen,I know that you are smuggling things across this frontier.Won't you tell me what it is that you're bringing into the country so successfully?I'm an old man,and today's my last day on the job.Tomorrow I'm going to retire .I promise that I shall not tell anyone if you tell me what you've been smuggling."The factory worker did not say anything for some time .Then he smiled turned to Henry and said quietly," Bicycles."
亨利的工作,是每天检查过境的车,确保这些车没有向国内走私东西.除了周末,每个晚上他都会看见一个工厂工人走上山来到边境,推着一辆装着一大捆旧稻草的自行车.当自行车到了边境,亨利常常拦住那个人,让他拿下那捆稻草并打开.于是他就可以仔细的检查那捆稻草,看看是否能找到什么东西.之后,他会检查那个男人所有的衣兜,然后让他把那捆稻草重新捆扎上.然后那个男人就会把稻草放到自行车上,走下山去.尽管亨利经常希望能在稻草中发现藏着的金子、珠宝或者其他有价值的东西,但是他什么都没发现过,尽管他检查的十分认真.他肯定这个人在走私什么东西,但是他想象不出来那是什么.
一个晚上,当他像平时一样检查过稻草,把工人的兜翻了个底朝天之后,他对他说:“听着,我知道你在边境走私东西.你不妨告诉我你成功的带进过境的东西到底是什么.我已经老了,今天是我最后一天上班.明天我就退休了,我保证我不会告诉任何人你一直走私的是什么.”那个工厂工人一时没有说话.然后他笑了,轻声的对亨利说:“自行车”.
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