Lesson 31
    第31課
    Success Story
    成功者的故事
    First listen and then answer the question.
    聽錄音，然后回答以下問題。
    What was Frank's first job?
    弗蘭克的第一份工作是什么？
    Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about
    昨天下午
    his experiences as a young man.
    弗蘭克.霍金斯向我講述了他年輕時的經(jīng)歷。
    Before he retired,
    在退休前，
    Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.
    弗蘭克是一家非常大的商業(yè)公司的經(jīng)理，但他小時候卻在一家小鋪里做工。
    It was his job to repair bicycles
    他那時的工作是修理自行車，
    and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.
    并且通常是一天工作14個小時。
    He saved money for years and
    他靠多年積蓄，
    in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own.
    于1958年買下了自己的一個小鋪子。
    In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes.
    20多歲的時候，弗蘭克曾生產(chǎn)飛機零配件。
    At that time he had two helpers.
    那時他有兩個幫手。
    In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory
    幾年之后，
    which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
    小鋪子已經(jīng)發(fā)展成了一個雇有728人的大工廠。
    Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success.
    弗蘭克回想著他早年的艱難經(jīng)歷和走過的漫長的成功之路，微笑了。
    He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.
    他正笑著的時候門開了，他的妻子走了進來。
    She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!
    她叫他去修理孫子的自行車。