《新概念英語》第二冊第二課英譯中

Breakfast or lunch?

It was Sunday. I never get up early on Sundays. I sometimes stay in bed until lunchtime. Last Sunday I got up very late. I looked out of the window. It was dark outside. 'What a day!' I thought. 'It's raining again.' Just then, the telephone rang. It was my aunt Lucy. 'I've just arrived by train,' she said. 'I'm coming to see you.'

'But I'm still having breakfast,' I said.

'What are you doing?' she asked.

'I'm having breakfast,' I repeated.

'Dear me,' she said. 'Do you always get up so late? It's one o'clock!'

饔飧顛倒？

餘周日恒晏起，偶至餉時仍寐於榻上。上周日餘慵起，觀乎窗外，漆黑一片。餘思忖道：“天不作美，複雨。”無何，電話鈴起。餘姑母露茜於聽筒中曰：“餘乘火車方至，即造汝處。”餘曰：”餘方用早膳。“姑母問曰：“汝何為？”餘複曰：“餘方用早膳。” 姑母聞之，曰：“噫！醜時已至，汝恒晏起如是？”