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2021-12-06 17:33:3811:24 204

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题目:Experiences Speak
正文:There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guidebook in hand. Of course, we may study with our guidebooks the history and special developments of a town and get to know them. But then, if we take our time and stay in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we look at it as a whole, we begin to have some questions, which even the best guidebooks do not answer. Why is the town just like this, this shape, this plan, and this size?

Here even the best guidebooks fail us. We can’t find in it the information about how a town has developed to the present appearance. However, we may get some idea of what it used to look like by walking around the town. A personal visit to a town may help us better understand why it is attractive than just reading about it in a guidebook.
guidebook [ɡaidbuk] n. 旅行指南；指导手册
fail [feil] vi. 失败，不及格；衰退；缺乏；破产
vt. 不及格；忘记；使失望；舍弃
When I wanted his help he failed me.当我需要他帮助时，他却使我失望。
The teacher failed me in math.老师给我数学不及格。
some idea :a certain idea