捕鼠記
One day a lady saw a mouse running across herkitchen floor. She was very afraid of mouse, so sheran out of the house, got into a bus and went to theshops. There she bought a mousetrap. Theshopkeeper said to her, "Put some cheese in it andyou will soon catch that mouse."
一天,一位女士看到一只老鼠從自家廚房的地板上竄過。她很害怕老鼠,所以她沖出屋子,搭上了公共汽車直奔商店。在那兒,她買了一只老鼠夾。店主告訴她:“在里面放點奶酪,很快就會逮住那只老鼠的。”
The lady went home with her mousetrap, but when she looked in her cupboard, she could notfind any cheese in it. She did not want to go back to the shop, because it was very late, so shecut a picture of some cheese out of a magazine and put that in the trap.
這位女士帶著鼠夾回到家里,但在碗櫥里她沒有找到奶酪。可是天已經(jīng)很晚了,她不想再跑一趟商店。于是,她就從一份雜志中剪下一幅奶酪的圖片,放進了夾子。
Surprisingly, the picture of the cheese was quite successful! When the lady came down to thekitchen the next morning she found a picture of a mouse in the trap beside the picture of thecheese!
令人稱奇的是,這幅奶酪的圖片竟然奏效了!第二天早上,這位女士下樓來到廚房里,在奶酪圖片旁邊發(fā)現(xiàn)了一張畫著老鼠的圖片!