Dan was the doorman of a club in a big city.
丹在一个大城市的某个俱乐部当守门人。

Everyday, thousands of people passed his door, 
每天都有数千人经过他的门口，

and a lot of them stopped and asked him, "What's the time, please?"
而且许多人都会停下来问他:“请问现在几点?”

After a few months, Dan said to himself, "I'm not going to answer all those stupid people any more.
几个月后，丹想:“我不想再回答这些蠢人提出的问题了，

I'm going to buy a big clock 
我要去买一只大钟，

and put it upon the wall here." 
把它挂在这儿的墙上。

Then he did so.
于是他买了一只钟，把它挂在了墙上。

“Now people aren't going to stop and ask me the time," he thought happily.“
现在人们总不会再停下来问我时间了。”他高兴地想。

But after that, a lot of people stopped, 
可是打那以后，每天仍有许多人停下来，

looked at the clock and then asked Dan, "Is that clock right?”
看看钟，然后问丹:“这钟准吗?”