Mrs Harris lives in a small village. Her husband is dead, but she has one son. He is twenty-one and his name is Geoff. He worked in the shop in the village and lived with his mother, but then he got work in a town and went and lived there. Its name was Greensea. It was quite a long way from his mother’s village, and she was not happy about this, but Geoff said, “There isn’t any good work for me in the country, Mother, and I can get a lot of money in Greensea and send you some every week.”
哈里斯夫人住在一个小村子里。她的丈夫死了，但是她有一个儿子。他21岁了，名字叫吉奥夫。他在村子里的一家商店工作，跟妈妈住在一起，但是后来，他在一个镇上找到了工作，然后就去生活在那儿。镇的名字叫绿海。那儿离他妈妈的村子很遥远，她对这一点不满意，但是吉奥夫说：“在乡下没有什么好活我可以干，妈妈，在绿海我能挣许多钱，每周可以给你寄来一些。”
Mrs Harris was very angry last Sunday. She got in a train and went to her son’s house in Greensea. Then she said to him, “Geoff, why do you never phone me?”
上星期天，哈里斯夫人非常生气。他坐上一列火车，去了他儿子在绿海的家。然后她对他说：“吉奥夫，你为什么从来不给我打电话呢？”
Geoff laughed. “But, Mother,” he said, “you haven’t got a phone.”
吉奥夫大笑起来。“可是，妈妈，”他说，“你没有电话呀。”
“No,” she answered, “I haven’t, but you’ve got one!”
“不错，”她回答，“我没有，但是你有啊！”
