The Yardman
The yardman comes every two weeks.
He drives a gray pickup truck.
The truck is a Ford.
It is about 15 years old, but it runs well.
It doesn’t burn oil, and it gets decent gas mileage.
The yardman’s name is Byron.
In the back of his truck are a lawn mower, a leaf blower, a rake, and a shovel.
Byron uses the leaf blower to blow leaves and dirt from the back of the building out to the front of the building.
Then he rakes up the leaves into a bag.
He blows the dirt out into the street.
He cuts the lawn with his lawn mower.
He trims the hedge.
He uses the leaf blower to blow the dirt off each Welcome mat that lies in front of each apartment door.
Then he puts all the leaves, the grass trimmings, and the hedge clippings into a wheelbarrow.
He pushes the wheelbarrow to the back of the building, where he uses his big shovel to empty the wheelbarrow contents into the big dumpster.
It takes Byron about two hours to do this work.
When he is done,he goes half a block up the street to the house on the corner.
There he does the same work again.
園丁
園丁每兩週來一次。
他開著一輛銀色小卡車。
卡車是福特的。
它已經15年了，但是性能依舊很好。
它不用石油，它用汽油。
這個園丁的名字是拜倫。
他的卡車後面有個割草機、鼓風機、耙子和鐵鏟。
拜倫用鼓風機來吹葉子以及建築物前前後後的塵土。
接著他把葉子耙進一個包裡。
他把塵土吹進街道。
他用割草機割草坪。
他修理了樹籬。
他用鼓風機吹走公寓門前的塵土。
接著他把所有的葉子、修剪的草以及剪下的東西放進獨輪手推車。
他將獨輪手推車推到建築物後面，在後面他用鐵鏟將推車中的垃圾清進大垃圾箱。
拜倫花了兩小時做這項工作。
當他做完工作，他堵住了通往拐角處房子的街道。
他做著重複的工作。
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