亲爱的艾米:
Long time no see. How is everything going? I am writing to tell you a good new about me. I received my high school admission this morning. It is No.1 high school in my hometown. You know that it is my dream school. I am so excited to share this good news with you. You will be happy for me, right? Now, it is your turn. How about you? Have you receive you admission yet? Have you come back from your Guangzhou trip? I am eager to know your life recently. Look forward to your replying.
很久不见。最近怎么样了?我写这封信给你是想告诉你我的一个好消息。我今早收到高中入学通知书了。是我家乡的第一高中。你知道的`,那是我梦想中的学校。我真的很激动,所以急于跟你分享这个消息。你会为我感到高兴的,是吗?现在,该轮到你了。你怎么样了?收到通知书了吗?你的广州之旅结束了吗?我很想了解你的近况。期待你的回信。
Best wishes,
Li Hui
李慧
there was once a Prince who wished to marry aPrincess; but then she must be a real Princess. Hetravelled all over the world in hopes of finding such alady; but there was always something wrong.Princesses he found in plenty; but whether theywere real Princesses it was impossible for him todecide, for now one thing, now another, seemedto him not quite right about the ladies. At last hereturned to his palace quite cast down, because hewished so much to have a real Princess for his wife.
One evening a fearful tempest arose, it thundered and lightened, and the rain poureddown from the sky in torrents: besides, it was as dark as pitch. All at once there was heard aviolent knocking at the door, and the old King, the Prince's father, went out himself toopen it.
It was a Princess who was standing outside the door. What with the rain and the wind,she was in a sad condition; the water trickled down from her hair,and her clothes clung to herbody. She said she was a real Princess.
“Ah! we shall soon see that!” thought the old Queen-mother; however, she said not aword of what she was going to do; but went quietly into the bedroom,took all the bed-clothes off the bed, and put three little peas on the bedstead. She then laid twenty mattressesone upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.
Upon this bed the Princess was to pass the night.
the next morning she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly indeed!” she replied. “I have scarcely closed my eyes the whole night through. I do not know what was in my bed,but I had something hard under me, and am all over black and blue. It has hurt me so much!”
Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess, since she had been able to feel thethree little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. None but a realPrincess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.
the Prince accordingly made her his wife; being now convinced that he had found a realPrincess. The three peas were however put into the cabinet of curiosities, where they are stillto be seen, provided they are not lost.
Wasn't this a lady of real delicacy?
豌豆公主
从前有一位王子,他想找一位公主结婚,但她必须是一位真正的公主。
他走遍了全世界,想要寻到这样的一位公主。可是无论他到什么地方,他总是碰到一些障碍。公主倒有的是,不过他没有办法断定她们究竟是不是真正的公主。她们总是有些地方不大对头。
结果,他只好回家来,心中很不快活,因为他是那么渴望着得到一位真正的.公主。
有一天晚上,忽然起了一阵可怕的暴风雨。天空在掣电,在打雷,在下着大雨。这真有点使人害怕!
这时,有人在敲门,老国王就走过去开门。
站在城外的是一位公主。可是,天哪!经过了风吹雨打之后,她的样子是多么难看啊!水沿着她的头发和衣服向下面流,流进鞋尖,又从脚跟流出来。
她说她是一个真正的公主。
“是的,这点我们马上就可以考查出来。”老皇后心里想,可是她什么也没说。她走进卧房,把所有的被褥都搬开,在床榻上放了一粒豌豆。于是她取出二十床垫子,把它们压在豌豆上。随后,她又在这些垫子上放了二十床鸭绒被。
这位公主夜里就睡在这些东西上面。
早晨大家问她昨晚睡得怎样。
“啊,不舒服极了!”公主说,“我差不多整夜没合上眼!天晓得我床上有件什么东西?我睡到一块很硬的东西上面,弄得我全身发青发紫,这真怕人!”
现在大家就看出来了。她是一位真正的公主,因为压在这二十床垫子和二十床鸭绒被下面的一粒豌豆,她居然还能感觉得出来。除了真正的公主以外,任何人都不会有这么嫩的皮肤的。
因此那位王子就选她为妻子了,因为现在他知道他得到了一位真正的公主。这粒豌豆因此也就被送进了博物馆,如果没有人把它拿走的话,人们现在还可以在那儿看到它呢。
请注意,这是一个真的故事。
A Husbandman who had a quarrelsome family ,after having tried in vain to reconcile them by words ,thought he might more readily prevail by an example .So he called his sons and bid them lay a bundle of sticks before him .Then ,having tied them into a fagot, he told the lads ,one after the other ,to take it up and break it .They all tied ,but tried in vain .Then untying the fagot ,he gave them the sticks to break one by one .This they did with the greatest ease .Then said the father:"Thus you ,my sons ,as long as you remain united ,are a match for all you enemies ;but differ and separate ,and you are undone."
Union is strength.
从前,有个人自称“专治驼背”,他的招牌上写着:
"I specialize in curing hunchbacks. No matter whether you are hunchbacked like a bow, a shrimp, a basket for rinsing rice or a rice pot, I guarantee that once I start treatment, your hunchback will be cured."
“本人专治驼背,无论你驼得像弓,像虾,像淘箩,像饭锅,凡是经我医治,保证手到病除。”
One hunchback saw the signboard, believed it to be true, and asked for treatment.
有一个驼背,看到招牌,果然信以为真,就请他医治。
The doctor neither gave any prescription, nor let the patient take any medicine. All the medical instrument he had was two boards for pressing. One board was put on the ground, on which the hunchback was told to lie on his stomach. Another board was pressed on and tied tightly with the hunchback. Then the doctor jumped onto the board and trampled upon it at random with all his might. As a result, the hunchback was straightened, but, alas, he was "dead and gone" also.
他既不开药方,也不让吃药。他所有的医疗器具,就只是两块夹板。他把一块板放在地上,叫驼背趴在上面,用另一块压在驼背的身上,然后用绳索绷紧。接着,他便自己跳到板上,拼命用脚乱踩一番。结果,那个人的驼背算是给压直了,可是他的性命也就“呜呼哀哉”了。
When the hunchback's son learned of this, of course he had it out with the doctor. But the doctor said:
驼背的`儿子知道了,自然要与那个医生评理,那医生却说:
"My job is to straighten his back. It's none of my business whether he is dead or alive."
“我只管把他的驼背弄直,哪能管他的死活!”
“哦,文曲星?你从哪里来的?”
“北京中关村。” “北京中关村?”英汉词典听了便骄傲地说:“原来是山村来的小玩艺,看来主人多了个玩伴!” “老兄,我看你知识面不广,中关村是技术非常先进的地方,那儿有许多‘海归派’,除我以外,还有许多新产品也是在那儿诞生的”。 “哼,口气倒不小,说一说,你有哪些本领呢?”
“我可以帮小主人快速查单词,显示反义词、词组等。” “这不是和我一样吗?有什么了不起!”英汉字典不以为然, “我还能教主人读单词,帮助主人进行测试。” “你真有这么神奇? “不信?我可以演示给你看。”文曲星说完便敲打起来。 看到文曲星演示得那么迅速,那么准确,英汉词典惊讶了,但嘴上仍说“只不过比我多了一点功能罢了。” “我还储存有地理、历史、文学等方面的知识,可以扩大主人的知识面;可以帮助主人进行数学运算,既快又准。此外,我还有游戏功能,可以让主人在学习之余进行娱乐,放松自己,提高学习效率……” 这一次,英汉词典没再反驳,仰天叹道:“看来我已落伍了,跟不上时代的步伐了,该退休了!”
文曲星说:“其实我的好景也不会太长,科技发展日新月异,我也很快会被新产品给取代。因此,我们都得加紧学习,紧跟时代的步伐。”英汉字典听了沉思起来。
一个农夫,家庭不和睦,用言语劝告大家和好,总是无效,最后他想,用实际例子可能容易说服他们。于是他把儿子都叫来,吩咐他们抱一捆火柴放在他的面前。他把火柴捆成一捆,接着叫这些孩子挨次拿起来折断它,一个个都试过了,但都没有折断,接着他解了捆,一根一根地给他们折,他们都轻而易举地折断了。这时父亲说:"孩子们,只要我们团结一致,你们就能对付一切敌人;但是如果意见不合,各自东西,那么你们一定要失败。"
团结就是力量。
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