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My Uncle Theo 原文及翻译 My Uncle Theo is a man with real brains. He is a tall, thin, grey-haired man whose thoughts are always on learning and nothing else. He is quiet, gentle and absent-minded and with about as much sense as a child where money is concerned. Well, he applied for a post in Camford University. It was a very good post and there were hundreds of candidates who applied for it, and about fifteen, including Theo, were asked to go to be interviewed. Camford is a very small town with only one hotel in it. It was so full that they had to put many of the candidates two in a room. Theo was one of these, and the man who shared the room with him was a clever and self-confident fellow called Adams, about twenty years younger than Theo, with a loud voice, and a laugh that you could hear all over the hotel. Well, the Dean, that?s the head of the department of the University, and the committee interviewed all the candidates; and, as a result of this interview, the number was reduced to two, Uncle Theo and Adam. The committee decided to make their final choice after each candidate had given a public lecture in the college lecture-hall. The subject they had to speak on was “The Civilization of the Ancient Sumerians”; and the lecture had to be given in three days? 3 Well, for three days Uncle Theo never left his room. He worked day and night at that lecture, writing it out and memorizing it, almost without eating or sleeping. Adams didn?t seem to do any preparation at all. You could hear his voice in the bar where he had a crowd of people round him. He came to his room late at night, asked Uncle Theo how he was getting on with his lecture, and then told him how he had spent the evening playing bridge, or at the music-hall. He ate like a horse and slept like a log; and Uncle Theo sat up working at his lecture. The day of the lecture arrived. They all went into the lecture-room and Theo and Adams took their seats on the platform. And then, Theo discovered, t