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時間：2020-05-01
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The
straw,charclal and the pea
A long time ago
there lived a poor
grandmother. "Today, I will make a dish out of peas."
Grandmother prepared to
light the oven
furnace with
firewood and
straw. "Ouch, Ouch" "Oh my
goodness." As soon as the peas were
poured into the pot, each one
cried out.
Just then, when the
grandmother wasn't
looking one pea
jumped out of the pot and
rolled in
front the
straw. "Whew! I made it. But
where am I?" The pea
whispered to
himself.
Right about then, a lump of
charcoal that was
burning in the
furnace made a
small cry and flew out. "Gosh! This is hard" The
charcoal squinted his eyes and
wiped his
sweat away.
The
straw first questioned the pea. "Pea, how did you get here?" "From grandmother's pot, just as the fire was
being lite up to cook me and my
friends, I ran away" The pea
proudly boasted.
Next, the
straw asked the
charcoal. "How did you get here?" "With all my
strength from the pot, I just
barely got out."
Charcoal replied weakly.
When the
straw heard this, he
poured out his
heart too. "My fate is
similar to
yours too. All my
brothers went into the fire, but
luckily I
slipped out
through the
fingers." "Oh I see!" "Really?" The pea and the
charcoal each said a word and
nodded.
Charcoal said in a
worried voice. "What
should we do now?" "Since, we all
escaped luckily let us live
together in this
strange land."
In
hearing pea,
charcoal and
straw thought for a
moment. "What
should we do?" "I
think we
should do what the pea said." So, the pea,
charcoal and the
straw decided to
leave that
place.
It hadn't been long
since they left when they came
across a
stream. "How can we
cross the
stream?" "There's no
stepping stone, if only
there were some logs? "We can't go back; can't
there be a
better way?" They
stared at one
another and
worried.
A
little while later, the
straw thought of a good idea. "Since my body is
light and long, if I lie down and
stretch myself across the
stream you guys can
cross." "Will it be
alright?" "We will have to see." On the one hand, pea and
charcoal couldn't help in
worrying.
The
straw lay
across the
stream. "Hurry! You must
cross quickly. If you stay in one
place too long, I
could catch on fire."
Charcoal quickly began crossing over the
straw.
But, as
charcoal was
crossing, he
looked down. "I'm
scared! Oh what
should I do?"
Charcoal could no
longer move. "Hurry up and
cross!"
Straw said with all his
might.
However, just at that
moment, from the
charcoal the
straw caught on fire. "Oh, no!" The
straw broke in two and fell into the
stream. "Ahh!" At the same time,
charcoal fell into the
water.
Pea, who was
watching this
scene, couldn't help
laughing. "Ha Ha Ha" "Ha Ha Ha" The pea
laughed so hard that he
broke in two. "Oh no, I'm
dying"
Luckily just then, a
tailor was
crossing the
bridge. "I will rest here for a
while." "Help me" the
tailor heard a
faint voice and
found the
split pea.
The
sympathetic tailor sewed the
split pea back
together, "You are
lucky that I'm a
tailor." "I'm
really fortunate." The
tailor was
finishing up
sewing the pea, the pea said
gratefully.
The pea
thanked the
tailor. "Thank you very much." "But,
because the
thread is
black there will be a mark." Just like the
tailor said,
since then
there was a
black mark down the
middle of the pea.
單詞注釋：
lump n. 塊, 團
charcoal n. 木炭, 炭筆
例句：I
threw a
stick of
charcoal in the fire.
我往火里扔了一根木炭。
sympathetic adj. 同情的, 共鳴的, 贊同的
例句：He took a
sympathetic attitude toward my
situation.
他對我的境遇抱同情的態(tài)度。
split adj. 分裂的
例句：They
believe the
killer has a
split personality.
他們認為這個兇手人格分裂。
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