对于小学生来说,希金波坦可能会讨论一个很多孩子都想知道的问题。
To elementary school children, Higginbotham may discuss a problem that many kids want to know about.
当美国女宇航员琼·希金波坦不在太空飞行和工作时,她也许在地球上的某个地方发表演讲。
When US spacewoman Joan Higginbotham is not flying and working in space, she might be found somewhere on earth giving a speech.
希金波坦在芝加哥长大,在加入美国国家航空航天局之前他是一名工程师,每年举办大约12次演讲。
Higginbotham, who grew up in Chicago and became an engineer before joining NASA, that is the National Air and Space Administration, gives about a dozen speeches a year.
希金波坦先生不在我就叫个孩子去叫你。
I'll send one of the children to tell you when Mr. Higginbotham ain't to be there. An 'mart.
希金波坦先生太节省,有了老婆干活他是不会雇用人的。
Mr. Higginbotham was too thrifty to keep a servant when his wife could do the work.
那天晚上他从希金波坦先生店奖给裁缝打了个电话,另行定做了一套。
He caught the tailor by telephone that night from Mr. Higginbotham's store and ordered another suit.
希金波坦太太从他扶着她的胳膊帮她上车的握法感到马丁不打算跟她一起走。
Mrs. Higginbotham divined from the grip on her arm as he helped her on, that he was not going to follow her.
他摸索到门把手,进了一间有灯光的屋子,他姐姐和伯纳德·希金波坦坐在屋里。
He fumbled for the knob and entered a lighted room, where sat his sister and Bernard Higginbotham.
给孩子们作了个好榜样,希金波坦先生在沉默中突然哼了一声。他的妻子要对沉默负责,而他又讨厌她的沉默。
"Settin 'a fine example to the children," Mr. Higginbotham snorted, suddenly, in the silence for which his wife was responsible and which he resented.
“那道门我是上个礼拜才油漆的呢,”希金波坦先生半是哀号,半是威胁,“工联规定的工钱有多高你是知道的。”
"I had that door painted only last week," Mr. Higginbotham half whined, half bullied; "and you know what union wages are."
“那道门我是上个礼拜才油漆的呢,”希金波坦先生半是哀号,半是威胁,“工联规定的工钱有多高你是知道的。”
"I had that door painted only last week," Mr. Higginbotham half whined, half bullied; "and you know what union wages are."
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