We reachedverb.抵达 Reading at about 11 o'clock. The river here is very dirty, so we moved on to Stretley. We stayed at Stretley for two days. We took our clothes to a laundry woman. We had triedverb.尝试 to wash them in the river, as George told us. The river was so dirty that our clothes collected all the dirtnoun.尘 from the water. The river became cleaner, but our clothes became dirtier. The laundry woman was very surprisedadj.感到惊讶的 to see suchadj.这样的 dirty clothes.
She looked at them and said, "This will costverb.花费 you three times the usualadj.通常的 price." We agreed and paid her. The river near Stretley and Goring is excellentadj.卓越的 for fishingnoun.渔业. It is full of different types of fish. Some people sit and fishverb.钓鱼 there all day.
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