Dan was the doorman of a club in a big city.
丹在一個大城市的某個俱樂部當守門人。

Everyday, thousands of people passed his door,?
每天都有數(shù)千人經(jīng)過他的門口，

and a lot of them stopped and asked him, "What's the time, please?"
而且許多人都會停下來問他:“請問現(xiàn)在幾點?”

After a few months, Dan said to himself, "I'm not going to answer all those stupid people any more.
幾個月后，丹想:“我不想再回答這些蠢人提出的問題了，

I'm going to buy a big clock?
我要去買一只大鐘，

and put it upon the wall here."?
把它掛在這兒的墻上。

Then he did so.
于是他買了一只鐘，把它掛在了墻上。

“Now people aren't going to stop and ask me the time," he thought happily.“
現(xiàn)在人們總不會再停下來問我時間了?！彼吲d地想。

But after that, a lot of people stopped,?
可是打那以后，每天仍有許多人停下來，

looked at the clock and then asked Dan, "Is that clock right?”
看看鐘，然后問丹:“這鐘準嗎?”