中英文本

49.Worthless Anxiety
49.干着急
When Martha looked in the classified ads she finally saw what she was looking for just below the section for classical music!
玛莎在分类广告时终于在古典音乐一栏下面看到了她要找的东西！
Clinging to the paper she rushed to the phone to make the phone call.
她紧盯着抓住那张报纸冲过去打电话。
Hanging up she jumped for joy!
打完电话，她高兴地跳了起来！
Now all she had to do was clean up the counters of the restaurant, clear out the customers and close up for a 15-minute break!
现在她所有要做的事就是把旅馆柜台打扫干净，把旅客赶走，停业15分钟！

Her class work could wait until later that evening.
她的课堂作业可以等到晚上再做。
First she had to pick up what she had just foumd.
首先她得把刚刚发现的东西捡起来。
As she was clearing off the final table, however, her boss walked in!
但是，就在她清理最后一张桌子时，老板进来了！
"What are you doing, Martha? Trying to close down early? You know you can't do that!" he said.
“你在干什么玛莎？想早点关门吗？你知道你不能那样的！”他说。
Martha was close to tears.
玛莎差不多要哭了。　
She'd never be able to clear it up with her boss if she even stepped out for a couple minutes.
哪怕只出去一两分钟吗，她都永远无法跟老板解释清楚。　
Now she would have to wait until her shift was over!
这下她只能等到下班了。　
She kept working.
她继续干他的工作。
Later, when her shift was almost finished her boss asked her to clean down the main refrigerator before she left!
后来，当她快要下班时，老板叫她走之前把大冰柜打扫干净！　
That would mean staying an hour later!
那意味着还得再呆一个钟头！
ARR-GHHH! Martha screamed in her head!
啊啊啊！玛莎的脑袋嗡地炸开了！
She was going to classify this as the worst workday of her life if she wasn't able to buy that thing!
如果买不了那个东西，她会把今天看成是一生中最糟糕的一天！　
But she had to listen.
可她只能服从命令。　
Cleaning out the refrigerator was unbearable; she had to open all of the windows just to clear the air when she was done!
打扫冰柜的活儿真叫人无法忍受，干完活儿还得打开所有窗户让空气清新！
But when everything was spic and span she quickly ran out.
等到一切收拾得干干净净，她赶快跑了出去。　
Martha came back and plopped in one of the restaurant chairs 10 minutes later and cried!
10分钟后，玛莎回来了，她一屁股坐在一把旅馆椅子上大哭起来！
It was gone!
那东西没有了！
All that anxiety for nothing!
这几半天确实白费力气！　

重点讲解

1.look for 寻找，寻求
例句：Are items located in the places customers might look for them?
信息项是否都在顾客可能找到的地方？
2.clean up 清理，打扫干净
例句：We should clean up the past-due bills.
我们应该清理逾期票据。
3.pick up 捡起，获得，收拾
例句：I'd really like to pick up Grandpa at the railroad station.
我真想去火车站接爷爷。
4.clear off 摆脱，清除，走开
例句：The fog began to clear off.
雾开始四散。
5.close down 关闭，查封
例句：All but one of those reactors are due to close down by 2023.
所有的反应堆除了一个以外其他的都计划在2023 年之前关闭。
6.step out 走出去，暂时离开工作
例句：He made a sure step out of the mud.
他从泥淖中跨出了稳健的一步。