Tom is a little boy, and he is only seven years old.
Once he goes to a cinema. It is the first time for him to do that. He buys a ticket and goes in. But after two or three minutes he comes out, and buys the second ticket and goes in again.
After a few minutes he comes out again and buys the third ticket. Two or three minutes after that he comes out and asks for another ticket.
But a girl asks him,“Why do you buy so many tickets? How many friends do you meet?”
“No, I have no friends here, but a big woman always stops me at the door and cuts up my ticket.”
A Shepherd-boy, who tended his flock not far from a village, used to amuse himself at times in crying out"wolf !wolf!"Twice or thrice his trick succeeded .The whole village came running out to his assistance when all the return they got was to be laughed at for their pains .At last one day the wolf came indeed .The boy cried out in earnest. But his neighbors, supposing him to be at his old sport, paid no heed to his cries, and the wolf devoured the sheep. So the boy learned, when it was too late, that liars are not believed even when they tell the truth.
Once there were three foxes, they worked together. They lived a happy life. Little by little, the youngest fox became lazy, and often quarreled with the other foxes. The eldest had to leave, and the second fox was driven off, too. Looking at the warm house with a lot of good food in it, the youngest fox smiled. The eldest fox opened a new hill again. The second eldest fox dug a pool. Two of them because rich soon. The youngest fox ate up the food left by the other two foxes. In the end it felt so cold and hungry that it could not stand up.
In a dog park in a very chic Manhattan neighborhood, three dogs get together to chat, and the subject of what breed they are comes up.
在曼哈顿的一个狗公园里,三只狗正在聊着它们的血统是怎样的。
The first dog says, "well, my mother was a cocker spaniel and my father was a poodle, so I'm a Cockapoo. We're very trendy."
第一只狗说,“嗯,我妈妈是只考克斯班尼犬,我爸爸是只贵宾犬,所以我是只可卡颇。我们都是很时髦的。”
The second dog puts his nose in the air and says, "Well, that's nice. Personally, my father was a purebred pug and my mother was an award-winning beagle, making me a Puggle. We're the latest thing in L.A."
The third dog looks very uncomfortable and starts trying to change the subject. "Come on, just tell us," the other dogs keep saying. Finally, he gives in.
第三只狗看上去很不舒服,试着转移话题。“别这样,告诉我们吧。”其他两只狗劝道。最终,它还是说了。
"Well, my father was a Bull Terrier and my mother was a Shi Tzu..."