中英美文:我們的問題

2021-06-12 經典美文

　　Remember that when any one of us is in trouble, we are all at risk.

　　記住，如果我們中任何一個人遇到麻煩，我們都將處于危險之中。

　　A little mouse living on a farm was looking through a crack in the wall one day and saw the farmer and his wife opening a package.

　　The mouse was intrigued by what food the package may contain. He was aghast to discover that it was a mousetrap. The mouse ran to the farmyard warning everyone: “There is a mousetrap in the house, there is a mousetrap in the house.”

　　The chick raised his head and said, “Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this trap is a grave concern to you, but it has no consequence to me and I cannot be bothered with it.”

　　The mouse turned to the pig, “I am so sorry Mr. Mouse, but the trap is no concern of mine either!” the pig said.

　　The mouse then turned to the bull, “It sounds like you have a problem, Mr. Mouse, but not one that concerns me.” the bull said.

　　The mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected that no one would help him or has concerned about his dilemma.

　　He knew he had to face the trap on his own. That night the sound of a trap catching its prey was heard throughout the house. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness she could not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

　　The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The wife caught a bad fever and the farmer knew the best way to treat a fever was with chicken soup. The farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard to get the soup’s main ingredient.

　　The wife got sicker and friends and neighbors came by to take turns sitting with her round the clock. The farmer knew he had to feed them, so he butchered the pig.

　　The farmer’s wife did not get better, in fact she died and so many friends and family came to her funeral that the farmer had to slaughter the bull to feed all of them.

　　So the next time we hear that one of our teammates is facing a problem and think it does not concern or effect us, let us remember that when any one of us is in trouble, we are all at risk.

　　Life is a celebration. Be happy and make others happy.

　　我們的問題

　　一天，一只住在農場的小老鼠透過墻上的洞看到農場主和他的妻子打開了一個包裹。

　　小老鼠很好奇里面裝的是什么好吃的食物。但是令它震驚的是，里面居然是一個老鼠夾。于是它跑到農場的院子里向每一個動物警告說：“屋里有一個老鼠夾!屋里有一個老鼠夾!”

　　一只小雞抬起頭說：“老鼠先生，我敢說老鼠夾是專為你設置的.，不會給我?guī)砣魏魏蠊�，我用不著擔心�！?/p>

　　老鼠轉向豬�！拔乙埠鼙福鲜笙壬�，老鼠夾和我也沒有任何關系。”小豬說道。

　　老鼠又去跟牛講。老牛對它說：“聽起來你好像遇到了麻煩，老鼠先生，但是這也不關我的事。”

　　老鼠耷拉著腦袋回到屋子里，他感到很沮喪，因為沒有誰愿意幫助它，沒有誰為它的困境擔心。

　　它只有獨自面對這個老鼠夾了。那天晚上大家都聽到了夾子夾住東西的聲音。農夫的妻子急忙跑過去看是什么被抓住了。黑暗中她看不清，其實是一條毒蛇的尾巴被夾住了。

　　農夫的妻子被毒蛇咬了一口，發(fā)起了高熱。農夫知道最好的退熱辦法是喝雞湯，于是他拿著菜刀走進院子去取做湯的原料。

　　農夫的妻子病得更重了，朋友和鄰居們輪流來看她。農夫必須招待他們，所以就把豬殺了。

　　農夫的妻子還是沒有好轉，最后還是死了，很多朋友和家人來參加她的葬禮，農夫只有殺牛來招待他們。