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《Harry Potter & the Sorceers Stone》
Chapter One——the Boy who Lived (part I)
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.
The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn't think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley's sister, but they hadn't met for several years; in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him. This boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didn't want Dudley mixing with a child like that.
(To be Continued...)
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Why did the Dursleys want to keep the Potters away?
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He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors.
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简答题答案：
The Dursleys wanted to keep the Potters away because they thought Mr. Potter were good for nothing. Furthermore, they didn't want their son mixing with the son of the Potters.
翻译参考：
他长得高大粗壮，胖得几乎没有脖子，但胡子倒是蓄了一大把。德思礼太太则是个瘦削的金发女人，她的脖子可要比一般人长两倍，这样当她把自己的大部分时间花在探过篱墙窥查左邻右舍的时候，长脖子可派上了大用场。
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