1. But the claim made by a local authority to recover the cost of salvaging a sunken pie dish must surely be unique.
    但某地当局为打捞一只焙制馅饼的盘子提出索赔，倒是件新鲜的事儿。

2. The pie committee decided that the best way to transport the dish would be by canal, so they insured it for the trip.
    馅饼委员会确认运输这只盘子的最佳方案是通过运河水运。于是，他们对这只盘子的运输安全投了保。

3. The pie committee telephoned a local garage owner who arrived in a recovery truck to salvage the pie dish.
    馅饼委员会给当地汽车修理库老板打电话，他闻讯后开着一辆急修车前来打捞盘子。

4. Have some more pie.
    再来点儿馅饼。

5. Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide.
    不可否认，这并非寻常的馅饼盘，它长为18英尺，宽为6英尺。

6. Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide.
    这个馅饼盘子确实少见，有18英尺长，6英尺宽。

7. Shortly after it was launched, the pie committee went to a local inn to celebrate.
    盘子下水后不久，馅饼委员会成员们来到当地一家小酒店庆贺。

8. Soapy entered it, sat down at a table and ate a beefsteak and an enormous apple-pie.
    苏比进去坐在餐桌旁，吃了一份牛排，一大份苹果馅饼。

9. It had been purchased by a local authority so that an enormous pie could be baked for an annual fair.
    某地方当局买下它用来焙制一个巨大的馅饼为一年一度交易会助兴。

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