A: I just went upstairs to ask the neighbors in the apartment above us to keep the noise down.
B: I think it worked. They stopped a few minutes after you went up.
A: That’s funny. I knocked, but nobody answered. I didn’t even get the chance to complain to them.
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B: Do they have a security peephole in the door?
A: I think they do, yes.
B: That explains it. One look at your seething face on the other side of the door would have told them everything they needed to know.
A: 我剛剛到樓上去，叫樓上的鄰居小聲一點。
B: 這有用欸。你上去幾分鐘以後，他們就停了。
A: 真奇怪，我去敲過門，可是都沒人來應門。我連抱怨的機會都沒有。
B: 他們的門上有窺視孔嗎？
A: 對，應該是有。
B: 那原因就很清楚了。看到你在門外那個氣呼呼的臉，他們就知道你要說什麼了。
（Paul Cooper, Taipei Times／台北時報林俐凱譯）
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