英語小達(dá)人每天10分鐘 397 How to Clean the Mirror
怎樣清洗鏡子
According to a news report, a certain private school recently was faced with a unique problem.
根據(jù)一篇新聞報(bào)道，一個(gè)私立學(xué)校最近正面臨著一個(gè)獨(dú)特的問題。
A number of girls were beginning to use lipstick andwould put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, butafter they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of littlelip prints.
有一些女生開始化妝了，她們?cè)谙词珠g里涂口紅。這件事本來沒什么問題，可問題是，她們抹完口紅后都會(huì)在鏡子上印上自己的唇印，每天鏡子上都會(huì)留下幾十個(gè)。
Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day, the girls would putthem back.
保潔員每天晚上都會(huì)把鏡子擦干凈，可是，第二天早上，姑娘們又會(huì)留下新的唇印。
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done.
終于，校長決定做點(diǎn)什么來改變這種狀況。
She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. Sheexplained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had toclean the mirrors every night.
她把姑娘們都叫到洗手間，把每天晚上擦洗鏡子的保潔員介紹給她們。她說她們留在鏡子上的唇印給保潔員的打掃工作帶來很多麻煩。
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenanceman to show the girls how much effort was required.
為了讓姑娘們知道擦洗鏡子有多麻煩，她讓保潔員演示一下。
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it.
只見保潔員拿出一個(gè)長柄的橡皮清潔刷，在馬桶里蘸了蘸后，開始擦拭鏡子。
Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
從那以后，鏡子上再也沒有唇印了。
