You can listen to BBC or VOA news if you want to improve your listening.
如果你想提高听力,你可以听英国广播电台或美国之音的新闻节目。
To fall off a bench
从长椅上掉下来
Though my aunt pursued what was, in those days, an enlightened policy, in that she never allowed her domestic staff to work more than eight hours a day, she was extremely difficult to please.