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The following is a true story, and this situation supposedly occurred in a real courtroom. At a trial, an attorney was putting witnesses through an exacting1 cross-examination, and was taking great delight into forcing witnesses to admit that they did not remember every single detail of an automobile2 accident. While the lawyer knew that no witness has a perfect memory, he had honed a skill in exploiting minor3 inconsistencies and lapses4 of memory in order to challenge the credibility of honest witnesses. After a series of scathing5 cross-examinations, he was looking forward to his examination of yet another witness. "Did you actually see the accident?" he asked. The witness responded with a polite, "Yes, sir." "How far away were you when the accident happened?" "I was Thirty-four feet, seven and three quarters inches away from the point of collision." "Thirty-four feet, seven and three quarter inches?" the lawyer asked, sarcastically6, "Do you expect us to believe that your memory is so good, and your sense of distance is so precise, that months after the accident you can come into court and give that type of detail?" The witness was unphased. "Sir, I had a hunch7 that some obnoxious8, know-it-all lawyer would ask me the distance, and would try to make it seem like I was lying if I could not give an exact answer. So I got a tape measure, and measured out the exact distance 点击  收听单词发音
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