How Zebras Got Their Stripes
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
They had no time to play or to relax.
他们没有时间玩或放松。
It was just work, work, work.
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Long, long ago there were no zebras.
很久以前没有斑马
But there were a lot of donkeys.
却有无数驴子.
The donkeys worked hard each and every day.
驴子日活活活活活活.
The donkeys carried heavy bundles.
驴取重捆.
They carried the bundles for miles, but they never felt appreciated for the work they did.
他们携带了数英里的捆绑物,但他们从未因所做所为而感到感激.
One day two donkeys got fed up.
一日有两驴被厌去.
They decided they did not want to work all the time.
他们决定不想一直工作
Instead, they wanted to graze in green fields.
相反,他们想 在绿地上放牧。
They wanted to drink from clear streams, and they wanted to lie on soft grass.
他们想从清澈的溪流中饮用,想躺在柔软的草地上.
The wise old man thought and thought.
智者老子思惟而思惟.
He agreed that they worked too hard, and he wanted to help the donkeys.
他同意他们工作太辛苦,想帮助驴子.
The donkeys went to see a wise old man.
驴去见一智老.
They told him their problem.
他们告诉他他们的问题。
“What is your idea?”
“你的想法是什么? “
asked the donkeys.
问驴子.
“I am going to paint you,” said the man.
他说,“我要给你画画。”
“I will paint you, and no one will know you are donkeys.”
“我将画出你们,没有人会知道你们是驴子。 “
Then suddenly the wise old man jumped up.
忽然智者老子一跃而起.
“ I have an idea,” he said.
他说,“我有一个想法”。
The old man began to paint the donkeys.
老相公开始给驴子作画.
First he painted them white, and then he painted black stripes over the white paint.
他先是把它们画出白色,再把黑色的条纹画出白漆上.
The wise old man went off to find some paint, and he returned in just a matter of minutes.
智者老去取取出些漆来,只过几分钟就回来.
He had two pots of paint.
他有两壶油漆
One pot was filled with white paint, and the other was filled with black paint.
一壶被取出白漆,一壶被取出黑漆.
The zebras went to a field to graze.
斑马去一地取草.
No one bothered them, and they did not have to work.
没有人打扰他们,他们不必工作。
Instead, they lay in the grass and slept.
相反,他们躺在草地上并睡觉。
When he was finished, the donkeys did not look at all like donkeys.
完成后,驴子们并不像驴子那样看.
“You no longer look like donkeys,” the wise old man said.
智者老先生说,“你不再像驴子了。”
“Everyone will be fooled.
“每个人都会被愚弄。
I will call you something else.
我会叫你别的东西。
I will call you zebras.”
我会叫你斑马 “
“ Make us into zebras, too,” they pleaded.
“...... 也让我们变成斑马,
So the wise old man painted more donkeys.
故智老所画多驴.
As he did, more and more donkeys came.
就像他那样,越来越多的驴子来了。
Soon other donkeys saw the zebras.
不久有驴见斑马.
They asked the zebras where they came from.
他们问斑马从何而来.
When the zebras told the donkeys their secret, the donkeys all rushed to see the wise old man.
当斑马告诉驴子的秘密后,驴子们都急忙地去见智者老人.
There was no more paint.
没有更多的油漆。
The painted donkeys ran off to become zebras.
被涂作的驴跑去变成斑马.
The unpainted donkeys, because of their impatience, had to return to work.
无所涂驴,由来不耐,只得回活来.
This is why both donkeys and zebras roam the earth.
所以驴子和斑马都在地上漫游
This is also why it is important to be patient.
这也是必须耐心的原因。
The old man could not paint fast enough.
这老头画得不够快
Soon the donkeys became impatient.
驴子们很快变得不耐烦了.
They began to kick and stir about, and they knocked over the paint pots.
他们开始一脚踢一脚,一脚打倒了油漆罐.