★ Recognizing who the customer was, the manager was most apologetic and 'reprimanded the assistant severely. 經理認出了這位顧客，表示了深深的歉意，還嚴厲地訓斥了店員。

※ Recognizing…

eg：Recognizing who the visitor was, the woman became wild of joy； it was none other than her long-lost husband！ ★ When Dickie was given the fur coat, he presented the assistant with the cloth bag.

店員為迪基拿出了那塊手錶，迪基把布口袋遞給他，

※ present sb with sth provide/ supply / furnish sb with sth

arm sb with sth

★ It contained &300 in pennies. 口袋裏面裝著300鎊的便士。

※ in pennies按一個硬幣一個硬幣地計算 in miles / seconds

eg：The distance was shoed in miles. 距離是以英里為單位計的。

a novel in 3 parts 一部由三部分組成的小說

three in one 三合一 ； two in one

★ He insisted on the assistant's counting the money before he left 3o,000 pennies in all!

他堅持要店員點清那些硬幣後他才離去。這些硬幣加在一起共有30,000枚！

※ insist on 強調、堅持 （say firmly and repeatedly）

persist in （continue to do sth）

eg：Teachers insist on the importance of being punctual.

eg：His parents persist in his full recovery before going back to work.

他父母都堅持他完全健康後在去上班。

★ On another occasion, he invited a number of important critics to see his private collection of modern paintings. 還有一次，他邀請一些著名評論家來參觀他私人收藏的現代畫。

★ This exhibition received a great deal of attention in the press, for though the pictures were supposed to be the work of famous artists, they had in fact been painted by Dickie.

這次展覽引起報界廣泛注意，因為這些畫名義上是名家的作品，事實上是迪基自己畫的。

※ critics 批評家、批評家

an out spoken critic一個直言不諱的批評家。

analyst 分析家、分析師 ； system analyst 系統分析師

observer 觀察家 ； an observer of nature 自然觀察家

receive tremendous response 收到熱烈的反應

★ It took him four years to stage this elaborate joke simply to prove that critics do not always know what they are talking about.

他花了4年時間策劃這出精心設計的鬧劇，只是想證明評論家們有時並不解他們所談論的事情。

※ stage v. 策劃, 舉行, 發動

wage a war 發動戰爭 ；stage an exhibition 舉辦展覽

stage a come-back 密謀東山再起

※ simply to do （used to say that someone did sth with a bad result）

only to do