全文 10 句（男女对话）· 8 个生词和短语（加粗 + 红色音标 / 词性 / 释义）
作者1. Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.
作者2. Before he retired /rɪˈtaɪəd/ v. 退休, Frank was the head of a very large business company /ˈkʌmpəni/ n. 公司, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.
作者3. It was his job to repair bicycles /ˈbaɪsɪklz/ n. 自行车 and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.
作者4. He saved /seɪvd/ v. 积蓄 money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop /ˈwɜːkʃɒp/ n. 车间 of his own.
作者5. In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes.
作者6. At that time he had two helpers /ˈhelpəz/ n. 帮手，助手.
作者7. In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed /ɪmˈplɔɪd/ v. 雇佣 seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
作者8. Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success.
作者9. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.
作者10. She wanted him to repair their grandson /ˈɡrænsʌn/ n. 孙子's bicycle!
作者1. 昨天下午弗兰克·霍金斯向我讲述了他年轻时的经历。
作者2. 在退休前，弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理，但他小时候却在一家小铺里做工。
作者3. 他的工作就是修理自行车，那个时候他每天要工作 14 个小时。
作者4. 他攒了好几年的钱，终于在 1958 年买下了自己的一个小铺子。
作者5. 20 多岁时，弗兰克制造过飞机零件。
作者6. 那时他有两个帮手。
作者7. 几年之后，这个小铺子已经发展成了一家有 728 名雇员的大工厂。
作者8. 弗兰克回想着他早年的艰难经历和走过的漫长的成功之路时，笑了。
作者9. 他正笑着的时候，门开了，他的妻子走了进来。
作者10. 她想让他修理他们孙子的自行车！