进阶段-化身博士（原著版第3集）

一，原文文章：

And for close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these
random visitors or to repair their ravages.

‘Did you ever remark that door?’ he asked;‘It is connected in my mind,’ added he, ‘with a very odd story.’

‘Well, it was this way,’ returned Mr Enfield: ‘I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps. Street after street, and all the folks asleep––street after street, all lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church––till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman.

二，一词多义：

1. generation：30年（一代人）

2. literally：简直

3. long：渴望（动词）

三，生词：

1. random：胡乱的

2. remark：注意

3. add：补一句

4. odd：奇怪的

5. folks：人（非正式）

四，词组：

as if：犹如