烏鴉喝水

The Crow and the Water Bottle

英文版

It was a scorching hot summer day. One crow was very thirsty. "I'm so thirsty." The thirsty crow roamed around looking for water. After flying for a long time, the crow found a water bottle in one of the farmer's yard. The crow was so happy that he was able to have a drink.

The crow put his beak into the bottle. However, because the bottle was so long, he was not able to reach the water. The crow was exhausted.

'Should I go some other place for a drink?' He thought. However, because his wings were damaged, he was not able to move. "What shall I do?”

The crow flew round and round the farmer's yard, and thought. "Sure, that's what I will do." The crow had an idea. With all his strength, the crow started picking up stones. "One, two." He did this several times until the bottle was filled with stones. Then the crow drank a lot of water. Finally, the crow had enough strength to fly again.

中文版

那是一個(gè)炎熱的夏天。烏鴉非常渴。“好渴啊。”口渴的烏鴉在四處找水喝。飛了很久后，烏鴉在農(nóng)夫的院子里發(fā)現(xiàn)一個(gè)水瓶子。烏鴉很高興，終于找到水喝了。

烏鴉把嘴伸進(jìn)瓶子里。可是瓶子太長了，他夠不著水。烏鴉累的筋疲力盡。他想“要不我再去其他地方找水喝吧？”但是因?yàn)槌岚蚴軅耍麆?dòng)彈不了。“我該怎么辦？”

烏鴉在農(nóng)夫的院子里踱來踱去，想了又想。“對(duì)了，我可以這樣做啊。”烏鴉想到了一個(gè)主意。烏鴉使勁渾身力氣，開始撿石頭。“一、兩個(gè)...”他一直撿一直撿，直到瓶子里裝滿了石頭。就這樣，烏鴉喝了很多水。最后，烏鴉又恢復(fù)了力氣飛走了。

重點(diǎn)詞匯

scorching  [?sk?:t???]   adj. 極熱的

roam  [r??m]   v. 漫游

yard  [jɑ:d]   n. 院子

beak  [bi:k]   n. 鳥嘴

reach  [ri:t?]   v. 夠……

exhausted  [?g?z?:st?d]   adj. 精疲力盡的

damage  [?dæm?d?]   v. 損壞

strength  [stre?θ]   n. 力量

several  [?sevr?l]   n. 幾個(gè)的

enough  [??n?f]   adj. 足夠的