A mother mouse was out for a stroll with her babies when she spotted a cat crouched behind a bush. She watched the cat, and the cat watched the mice.
一只母老鼠带着孩子出来散步,突然她看见一只猫正在灌木丛中虎视耽耽。
Mother mouse barked fiercely, "Woof, woof, woof!" The cat was so terrified that it ran for its life.
母老鼠向着猫叫道:“汪,汪,汪”,猫听了非常害怕,拼命跑走了。
Mother mouse turned to her babies and said, "Now, do you understand the value of a second language?"
母老鼠回过头洋洋自得的对孩子说:“现在你知道第二语言的重要性了吧。
Big Ben is not the name of a man. It is a name of the clock. It is in London. London is the capital city of England.
大本钟不是一个人的名字,它是钟的名字,它在伦敦。伦敦是英国的首都。
The big clock has four faces. So no matter where you stand, you can see the face of the clock. The hands are about four meters long.
大本钟有四个面,因此无论站在什么方面,你都能见到钟面。大本钟的指南针大约4米长。
If you go to London, you may want to visit the house of the Parliament. In that place you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower in the House of the Parliament. The big clock makes a very loud noise. “Ding dong. Ding dong”- the clock strikes every quarter of an hour.
An old man has a cat. The cat is very old, too. He runs very quickly. And his teeth are bad. One evening, the old cat sees a little mouse. He catches it, but he can’t eat it because his teeth are not strong enough. The mouse runs away.
The old man is very angry. He beats his cat. He says: “You are a fool cat. I will punish you!” the cat is very sad. He thinks:“When I was young, I worked hard for you. Now you don’t like me because I’m too old to work. You should know you are old, too.”
A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road, he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road. He said, "I do not want to eat those apples; for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to eat." Then he took the apples and threw them away into the dust.He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big; so he could not go over it. He waited for some time; then he said, "I cannot go to the rich man's house today, for I cannot get over the river."He began to go home. He had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the apples, and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them.Do not throw good things away; you may be glad to have them at some other time.【译文】一个人正朝着一个富人的房子走去,当他沿着路走时,在路的一边他发现一箱好苹果,他说:“我不打算吃那些苹果,因为富人会给我更多的食物,他会给我很好吃的东西。”然后他拿起苹果,一把扔到土里去。他继续走,来到河边,河涨水了,因此,他到不了河对岸,他等了一会儿,然后他说:“今天我去不了富人家了,因为我不能渡过河。”他开始回家,那天他没有吃东西。他就开始去找吃的,他找到苹果,很高兴地把它们从尘土中翻出来吃了。不要把好东西扔掉,换个时候你会觉得它们大有用处。