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let’s proceed(v. 著手进行,继续进行)to the main exhibit hall and look at some of the actual vehicles that have played a prominent role in speeding up mail delivery. Consider how long it used to take to send a letter across a relatively short distant. Back in the sixteen hundreds, it took two weeks on horse back to get letter from Boston to New York, distant about 260(two and sixteen) miles. Cross a river was also a challenge. Ferry(渡船,渡口)service was so irregular that carrier(n. 运送者, 邮递员, 带菌者)would sometimes week hours and just catch a ferry. For Journeys inland was always a stagecoach(n. 驿马车,公共马车),. But the ride was by no means comfortable because it had to be shared with other passengers. The post officers pretty ingenious(机灵的,精制的,有独创性的) about some routes. In the 19th century , in the Southwestern desert, for instants, camels was brought in to help get the mail through. In Alaska(阿拉斯加(美国州名)), reindeer(n. 驯鹿)were used, this practice was discontinue because of the disagreeable(不愉快的)temperament(n. 气质, 性格, 性情)of these animal. We’ll stop here a minute so that you can enter this replica(n. 复制品) of a railway mail car. It was during the age of the Iron horse that delivery really started pick up. In fact, the united states transported most bulk mail by trains for nearly one hundred years. The first airmail service didn’t state until 1918. Please set a few moments around, I hope you enjoy the tour. And as you continue on your own, may I suggest you visit our impressive (a. 给人深刻印象的)philatelic(a. 集邮的,集邮癖的)collection. Not only can you look at some of the more unusual stamps issue, but there is an interesting exhibit on how stamps are made.+ f( z# i$ S2 s2 r$ s: w4 k$ g
4 w( c/ M7 z: s) P4 g[ 本帖最后由 bonnie春 于 2008-1-12 21:08 编辑 ]