Expensive and uncomfortable

原文

When a plane from London arrived at Sydney airport, workers began to unload a number of wooden boxes which contained clothing. No one could account for the fact that one of the boxes was extremely heavy. It suddenly occurred to one of the workers to open up the box. He was astonished at what he found. A man was lying in the box on top of a pile of woollen goods. He was so surprised at being discovered that he did not even try to run away. After he was arrested, the man admitted hiding in the box before the plane left London. He had had a long and uncomfortable trip, for he had been confined to the wooden box for over eighteen hours. The man was ordered to pay $3,500 for cost of the trip. The normal price of a ticket is $2,000!

译文

当飞机从伦敦到悉尼飞机场，工人们开始卸载一些木头箱子，里面装的是衣服。让人猜摸不透的事情是其中有一个箱子很是沉重。突然一个工人想打开了这个箱子。他有一个惊人的发现。一个男人躺在这个箱子里面，下面垫着羊毛纺织的货物。他由于被人发现的时候而感到很吃惊，都没有想过逃跑。之后他被带走了，承认在飞机离开伦敦的时候藏在箱子里。他这一路上的旅程很不舒服，要在木头箱子里待上整整18个小时。这个男人为这次旅程花费了3500美元。而这段旅程平常的飞机票价格才2000美元！

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