50个情景漫画背完四级4500词 · 第 001 篇

23:41,终稿不见了

The Missing Final Draft

小组作业 · 数据判断 · 90 个词 · 6 个连续场景

本章插画与角色
四位角色在深夜宿舍一起找回作业、核对图表
第 001 篇 · 四位同学在宿舍核对调查图表。

本篇出场角色

Shaylene 角色设定
Shaylene
Darlene 角色设定
Darlene
Jolene 角色设定
Jolene
Magdalene 角色设定
Magdalene
Marlene 角色设定
Marlene
Selene 角色设定
Selene
Arlene 角色设定
Arlene

第一遍只读英文:他们找回文件后,为什么还要改一次?点击标色词可查看词义和搭配。译文默认折叠。

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23:19|送回最后一份问卷

Jolene 推着自行车经过校园小桥,车座后绑着装有最后一份问卷的布包。

天色一直 (多云的)。Selene 发消息说最后一张问卷留在值班台,Jolene 便骑车去 (图书馆) 取,把装材料的袋子搁在车 (车座) 上系好。回宿舍要过一条 (小溪),她绕了两分钟去走有灯的那侧。Arlene 正等着这份 (调查),摊开 (笔记本),把 (参与者) 总人数补到六十。她翻了一本讲 (研究) 方法的 (平装书),书的 (前言) 里有一句提醒:不同问题可能有不同的 (样本)。Jolene 捏着茶杯说:“我这周已经 (身无分文的) 了,这两杯是宿舍泡的。”她的条纹长耳碰到了桌上一本 (畅销书),露出夹在里面的问卷回执。

展开纯英文原文与逐段译文

01|23:41 · 消失的文件

At 11:41 p.m., nineteen minutes before the , Shaylene brushed her teal forelock away from her round glasses and clicked on the folder. The final of their group report was gone. The on the screen contained only a rough , and the page still showed a red warning. “Maybe I forgot to it,” she whispered. “Or maybe I saved it in the wrong .”

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离截止时间只剩十九分钟。Shaylene 拨开挡住圆眼镜的蓝绿色额毛,点开小组作业文件夹。最终版不见了,屏幕上只有一份草稿,提交页面还亮着红色警告。「也许我忘了保存,」她小声说,「也可能存错了文件夹。」

02|23:44 · 群聊里的那句话

Darlene’s golden key tapped against a chair as she leaned over. She steadied the key with her one white front paw and pointed to the edit history. “Before we anyone, let’s the .” Arlene opened the edit history. The team had the same at different times. One had caused a , but the service had kept a . “We can it,” Arlene said. Shaylene took her paws off the keyboard. For the first time that night, she let someone else help.

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Darlene 探过身,尾巴上的金钥匙碰了碰椅子。她用唯一的白前爪按住钥匙,指了指编辑记录。「先查证据,再想是谁弄错的。」Arlene 打开编辑记录。大家在不同时间改过同一段文字,其中一次修改造成了冲突,但系统保留了副本。「能恢复。」Shaylene 把爪子从键盘上移开。那晚她第一次让别人帮忙。

03|23:48 · 好看的数字

Jolene brought over two cups of tea, her long, striped brown ear tilting toward the screen, and read the last page. “Wait. Our had sixty , but only twenty answered this question. Why does the say ‘80% of students’?” The answer was sixteen out of twenty. A neat chart had made a small look like strong . Arlene’s golden-brown spines lifted as she leaned over the chart. She checked the original and changed the . They kept the number but made the more : sixteen of the twenty respondents to that question preferred longer library hours.

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Jolene 端来两杯茶,带奶油色条纹的棕色长耳倾向屏幕,扫了眼最后一页。「等等,我们调查有六十个人,但这道题只有二十人答。图表为什么写‘80% 的学生’?」其实是二十人里的十六人。一张工整的图把小样本包装成了有力证据。Arlene 俯身看图,金棕色的背刺竖了起来。她核对原始数据,改了图表标签。数字没变,结论更准确了:回答这道题的二十个人里,有十六人希望延长图书馆开放时间。

04|23:55 · 提交成功?

The network was slow. Instead of trying to the file again and again, Darlene asked Jolene to read the aloud. They had to a PDF and the upload on a second page. Shaylene watched the screen until a appeared. She took a screenshot and sent it to the group chat. Then she wrote, “Thanks for catching that mistake.” She deleted “Sorry I ruined everything” before anyone could see it.

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网很慢。Darlene 没让大家反复上传,而是请 Jolene 大声读一遍说明。原来要先附上 PDF,再到第二页确认上传。Shaylene 盯着屏幕,直到提交回执出现。她把截图发进群里,又写了一句:「谢谢你们发现了那个错误。」至于「对不起,都是我搞砸了」,她在发送前删掉了。