古德明英语军事小故事:青 楼 侠 气 (中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事,古德明,香港英语教育作家,他开了一个《征服英语专栏》,在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事,用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。青 楼 侠 气
allied flyers and escaped pows followed many unusual paths to safety from occupied europe in the second world war. in paris one escape network operated through a brothel in montmatre, to which the escapees would be taken and disguised as customers in the event of a raid by the gestapo. one particular english pilot was so embarrassed at being taken there that word of his odd behaviour reached the ears of an informer. a member of the gestapo visited the brothel the next day in the guise of an ordinary client, but fortunately the manageress saw through his cover. in the event of a full gestapo raid she realised that the young pilot would be too embarrassed to play the part of a client and so dressed him as a prostitute instead.
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