“我几天以前在一张报纸上看见，”她突然宣布，“铁路邮局已发了几项当他的任命。”

"I saw in the paper a few days ago," she announced abruptly, "that there had been several local appointments to the Railway Mail."

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报纸可以被理解为某种公共载体，就像铁路和邮局一样。

The newspaper may be conceived as a sort of common carrier, like the railway or the post office.

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