Belling the cat
Long ago, there was a big cat in the house. He caught many mice while they were stealing food.
One day the mice had a meeting to talk about the way to deal with their common enemy. Some said this, and some said that.
At last a young mouse got up, and said that he had a good idea.
“We could tie a bell around the neck of the cat. Then when he comes near, we can hear the sound of the bell, and run away.”
Everyone approved of this proposal, but an old wise mouse got up and said, “That is all very well, but who will tie the bell to the cat?” The mice looked at each other, but nobody spoke.
Jack is a little goose. He has a lovely hat. He likes wearing it very much. But when he sits, his hat can’t stay on his head. He puts his hat down and begins to play game with the hat. When he gets tired of the game, things are not the same. He can’t find his hat. Where is it? Jack thinks hard. He looks up and down, and walks here and there. He can’t find his hat yet. At this time, his mother comes in. As soon as she sees Jack, she cries, “Oh, my dear! Don’t be foolish. Your hat is on your head.” Jack feels very foolish. He doesn’t want to wear his hat on his head.
傑克是一隻小鵝。傑克它有一頂可愛的帽子，傑克非常喜歡戴它。當傑克坐着時，他的帽子總是戴着頭上。 它脱下它的帽子並開始用帽子玩遊戲。當傑克玩累時，事情就不是那樣了。 傑克沒有找到他的帽子。它在哪裏？傑克仔細想。 傑克上下看了看，到處找了找，還是沒有找到它的帽子。 這時，傑克的母親走進來，當她看到傑克就喊道：“啊！親愛的，你真笨，帽子在你的頭上。” 傑克感到自己很愚蠢。它不像戴那頂帽子了。
During the Han Dynasty, in the southwest there was a small country called Yelang, and although it was an independent nation, its territory was small, there weren’t many citizens, and its products were pitifully few. Because it was the largest kingdom in the near area, the Yelang king who’d never left h own country thought the country he ruled was the biggest on earth.
One day, the king of Yelang was on a national border inspection tour with h troops, when he pointed in front of him [to neighboring country] and said, “Which country bigger?” In order to serve their own interests and make the king happy, the troops said, “Of course Yelang bigger!” They walked along, and the king once again lifted up h head, gazed at the big mountain in the dtance and asked: “Is there a taller mountain than th anywhere on earth?” And h men answered: “No, there’s no mountain taller than th one on earth.” After a while, they reached the river side, and the king asked again: “I think th the world’s longest river.” And all h men said in unon “The king speaks truly.” After th, the ignorant king believed even more firmly that Yelang was the world’s biggest country.
Then one day, the Han Dynasty dpatched an envoy to Yelang, and en route they encountered the neighboring kingdom DianGuo, and the King of Dian asked the emsary: “If you compared the Han Dynasty and my Kingdom, which one would be bigger?” The emsary ltened in astonhment, as he’d never have thought th small a country thought it could compare itself to the Han Dynasty. But he really never could have suspected that when he got to Yelang, the prideful and ignorant king who didn’t know that the kingdom he ruled was about the size of one Han county, would ask with an exaggerated opinion of h own worth, “Which bigger: the Han Dynasty or my country?”
漢朝的時候，在西南方有個名叫夜郎的小國家，它雖然是一個獨立的國家，可是國土很小，百姓也少，物產更是少得可憐。但是由於鄰近地區以夜郎這個國家最大，從沒離開過國家的夜郎國國王就以為自己統治的國家是全天下最大的`國家。
有一天，夜郎國國王與部下巡視國境的時候，他指着前方問説：“這裏哪個國家最大呀？”部下們為了迎合國王的心意，於是就説：“當然是夜郎國最大囉！”走着走着，國王又抬起頭來、望着前方的高山問説：“天底下還有比這座山更高的山嗎？”部下們回答説：“天底下沒有比這座山更高的山了。”後來，他們來到河邊，國王又問：“我認為這可是世界上最長的河川了。”部下們仍然異口同聲回答説：“大王説得一點都沒錯。”從此以後，無知的國王就更相信夜郎是天底下最大的國家。
有一次，漢朝派使者來到夜郎，途中先經過夜郎的鄰國滇國，滇王問使者：“漢朝和我的國家比起來哪個大？”使者一聽嚇了一跳，他沒想到這個小國家，竟然無知的自以為能與漢朝相比。卻沒想到後來使者到了夜郎國，驕傲又無知的國王因為不知道自己統治的國家只和漢朝的一個縣差不多大，竟然不知天高地厚也問使者：“漢朝和我的國家哪個大？”
A little girl asked her Mom, "Mom, may I take the dog for a walk around the block?"
一個小女孩問她的媽媽，“媽媽，我可以帶狗狗去街角散步嗎？”
Mom replies, "No, because she is in heat."
媽媽回答説，“不，因為她有些熱。”
"Whats that mean?" asked the child.
“那是什麼意思？”小女孩問。
"Go ask your father"， answered the mother, "I think hes in the garage."
“問你爸爸去吧，”媽媽回答道，“他應該在車庫裏。”
The little girl goes to the garage and says, "Dad, may I take Belle for a walk around the block? I asked Mom, but she said the dog was in heat, and to come to you."
於是小女孩就去了車庫裏，説“爸爸，我可以帶Belle去街角散散步嗎？我問了媽媽，但她説狗狗有些熱，讓我來問問你。”
Dad said, "Bring Belle over here." He took a rag, soaked it with gasoline, and scrubbed the dogs backside with it and said, "Okay, you can go now, but keep Belle on the leash and only go one time around the block."
爸爸説，“把Belle帶過來吧。”他拿了跟布條，用汽油浸過，然後綁在了狗狗的`背上用力擦了擦狗狗的背，説“好了，你現在可以去了，但是得一直拿着Belle的皮帶，並且只能在街角走一次。”
The little girl left, and returned a few minutes later with no dog on the leash. Surprised, Dad asked, "Wheres Belle?"
小女孩離開了，幾分鐘後便回來了，狗沒有一起回來。爸爸感到很驚訝，問道，“Belle呢？”
The little girl said, "She ran out of gas about halfway down the block, so another dog is pushing her home."
小女孩説，“她半路就把背上的汽油揮發光了，然後另外一隻狗就奮勇前進了。”
A 747 was halfway across the Atlantic when the captain got on the loud speaker:"Attention，passengers. We have lost one of our engines，but we can certainly reach London with the three we have left. Unfortunately， we will arrive an hour late as a result. "
一架747客機正跨越大西洋時，喇叭裏傳來了機長的聲音:“旅客們請注意，我們四個引擎之中有一個丟失了。但利下的三個引擎會把我們帶到倫敦的。不幸的是因此我們書晚到一小時。”
Shortly thereafter，the passengers heard the captains voice again:"Guess what，folks. We just lost our third engine，but please be assured we can fly with only one. We will now arrive in London three hours late. "
過了一會兒，旅客們又聽到了機長的聲音:“各位，你們猜怎麼啦？”我們剛又掉了第三個引擎。但請你們相信好了，有一個引擎我們也能飛，但要晚三個小時了。”
At this point，one passenger became furious. "For Petes sake,"he shouted，"If we lose another engine，well be up here all night ！"
正在這時，一位乘客非常氣憤地説:“看在上帝的扮止，如果我們再掉一個引拿，我們會整夜都呆在天上了。”
There are many animals in the forest. Today is a fine day. Animals are having a sport meeting. Monkey, Fox, Panda, Rabbit and Bear are running. Look! Rabbit is the first. Fox and Monkey are the second. Bear is the third. The other animals are shouting, “Bear! Come on! Bear! Come on!” And look there, Duck and Pig are doing high jump. Pig is too fat, he can’t jump very high. So Duck is the champion. Here! Cat and Squirrel are climbing a tree. Cat is ill. So he is the last, but he does his best. This sports meeting is wonderful. The animals are very happy!
森林裏有很多動物。 今天天氣晴朗，動物要舉行運動會。小猴子，狐狸，兔子和小熊在賽跑。看！小兔子得了第一，狐狸和猴子得了第二，小熊得了第三。動物們都在叫喊：“小熊，加油！小熊，加油！”看那兒，小鴨和小豬在比賽跳高。小豬太胖了，成績不太理想，所有小鴨得了冠軍。看這裏！小貓和小松鼠在比賽爬樹，小貓生病了，沒能拿冠軍，但它全力以赴了。 運動會可真棒，動物們多開心啊！
One hot summer day a fox was walking through an orchard. He stopped before a bunch of grapes. They were ripe and juicy.
“I'm just feeling thirsty,” he thought. So he backed up a few paces, got a running start, jumped up, but could not reach the grapes.
He walked back. One, two, three, he jumped up again, but still, he missed the grapes.
The fox tried again and again, but never succeeded. At last he decided to give it up.
He walked away with his nose in the air, and said“I am sure they are sour.”
Better late than never
Once upon a time there lived a nomadic, raise dozens of sheep, grazing during the day, night into a with straw and wooden objects inside the shelter.
One morning, the herdsmen to the sheep, found little a sheep. Original pen broke a hole, night Wolf out of the hole drilled to come in, put a sheep diao away.
Neighbor advised him said: “the sheepfold quickly repaired, the hole plug.”
He said: “the sheep have been lost, but also to repair the sheep pen do?” Didn't accept his neighbor's kind advice.
The next morning, he went to sheep and found a sheep was missing. Originally the Wolf from the inside of the hole into the sheepfold, and walked a sheep diao.
The herdsmen regret not to recognize directly by the neighbor's advice, to take timely remedial measures. So he quickly plug that hole, again from the overall reinforcement, firmly and mend the sheepfold.
Since then, the sheep herders have never been Wolf diao has come.
Herdsmen's story tells us: make a mistake, suffer setbacks, it is a common phenomenon. As long as can learn seriously, to take remedial measures in time, can avoid continue to make mistakes, suffer greater losses.
In spring, the mother pig took the little pig LuLu to the foot of the mountain. They planted some watermelon.
When summer came, there were many big round watermelons in the field.
One day, the sun was burning like a fire, it was terribly hot on the ground. The mother pig said to the little pig:“Lulu, go to the field to pick a watermelon back,ok?” Lulu said happily:“Ok! No problem.”
Then he ran to the watermelon field. When he got to the field, he was happy to find so many big green watermelons. He chose one of the biggest watermelon and picked it from the vine. Then he held it with his hands trying to lift is on his shoulder to carry it home.
“Wow!It's so heavy!” Lulu tried several times, but he failed. And he was socked with sweat. He wiped his sweat off and decided to have a rest.
Suddenly he saw the monkey Pipi. He was playing with a hoop. Lulu patted his head and said:“I've got it.” He thought,the round hoop can roll, the watermelon round too,then it can roll then put the big melon on the ground and rolled it forward quickly.
At last he got home with the mother pig knew the story, she exclaimed:“My child, you're really clever!”
My uncle has two dogs. One is big and the other is small. He likes them very much.
One day, Mr. Smith came to visit him. When the friend saw two holes in the door, a large hole and a small hole, he was surprised and said, ；My dear friend, why are there two holes in your door?； ；Let my dogs come in and come out, of course,； Mr. Smith asked. ；But why are there two holes? One is enough!； ；But how can the big dog go through the small hole?； my uncle said.
Sometimes a clever man may make such mistakes.
我的叔叔有兩條狗。一隻是大的，另一隻是小狗的。他很喜歡它們。
有一天，史密斯先生來看他。當這個朋友看見門口上有連個洞，一個是大洞和一個小洞時，他感到吃驚並説，；我親愛的朋友，為什麼你的門上有連個洞？；我的叔叔回答説：；當然是讓我的兩條狗進出了。 史密斯先生問到："為什麼門上要兩個洞呢？一個就足夠了。"我叔叔説：；大狗怎能走小洞呢？；
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