The Director of an Observatory1, who, with a thirty-six-inch refractor, had discovered the moon, hastened to an Editor, with a four-column account of the event.
“How much?” said the Editor, sententiously, without looking up from his essay on the circularity of the political horizon.
“One hundred and sixty dollars,” replied the man who had discovered the moon.
“Not half enough,” was the Editor’s comment.
“Generous man!” cried the Astronomer2, glowing with warm and elevated sentiments, “pay me, then, what you will.”
“Great and good friend,” said the Editor, blandly3, looking up from his work, “we are far asunder4, it seems. The paying is to be done by you.”
The Director of the Observatory gathered up the manuscript and went away, explaining that it needed correction; he had neglected to dot an m.
1 observatory | |
n.天文台,气象台,瞭望台,观测台 | |
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2 astronomer | |
n.天文学家 | |
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3 blandly | |
adv.温和地,殷勤地 | |
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4 asunder | |
adj.分离的,化为碎片 | |
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