读点好英文:Our Problem 我们的问题

Our Problem 我们的问题

A little mouse living on a farm was looking through a crack in the wall one day and saw the farmer and his wife opening a package.

The mouse was intrigued by what food the package may contain. He was aghast to discover that it was a mousetrap.The mouse ran to the farmyard warning everyone“there is a mousetrap in the house, there is a mousetrap in the house.”

The chicken raised his head and said，“Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this trap is a grave concern to you, but it has no consequence to me and I cannot be bothered with it.”

The mouse turned to the pig，“I am so sorry Mr. Mouse, but the trap is no concern of mine either！”

The mouse then turned to the bull，“It sounds like you have a problem Mr. Mouse, but not one that concerns me.”

The mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected that no one would help him or has concern about his dilemma.

He knew he had to face the trap on his own. That night the sound of a trap catching its prey was heard throughout the house.The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.In the darkness she could not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer's wife. The wife caught a bad fever and the farmer knew the best way to treat a fever was with chicken soup.The farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard to get the soup's main ingredient.

The wife got sicker and friends and neighbors came by to take turns sitting with her round the clock. The farmer knew he had to feed them, so he butchered the pig.

The farmer's wife did not get better, in fact she died and so many friends and family came to her funeraI that the farmer had to slaughter the bull to feed all of them.

So the next time we hear that one of our teammates is facing a problem and think it does not concern or effect us, let us remember that when anyone of us is in trouble, we are all at risk.

Life is a celebration. Be happy and make others happy.

一天，住在农场里的一只小老鼠透过墙上的洞看到农场主和他的妻子打开了一个包裹。

小老鼠很好奇里面装的是什么好吃的，但是令它震惊的是，里面居然是一只老鼠夹。于是它跑到院子里警告大家说：“屋里有一只老鼠夹！屋里有一只老鼠夹！”

小鸡抬起头说：“老鼠先生，我敢说老鼠夹是专为你设置的，不会给我带来任何后果，我用不着担心。”

老鼠转向猪，“我也很抱歉，老鼠先生，老鼠夹和我也没有任何关系。”

老鼠又去跟牛讲，“听起来你好像遇到了麻烦，老鼠先生，但是这也不关我的事。”

老鼠耷拉着脑袋回到屋子里，它感到很沮丧，因为没有一个人愿意帮助它，没有一个人为它的困境担忧。

它只有独自面对这只老鼠夹了。那天晚上整间屋子都听到了夹子夹住东西的声音。农夫的妻子急忙跑过去看是什么被夹住了，黑暗中她并不知道是一条毒蛇的尾巴被夹住了。

农夫的妻子被毒蛇咬了一口，发起了高烧。农夫知道最好的退烧办法是喝鸡汤，于是他拿着菜刀走进院子去取做汤的原料。

农夫的妻子病得更重了，朋友和邻居们日夜轮流来陪她。农夫必须招待他们，所以就把猪杀了。

农夫的妻子还是没有好转，后来死了，很多朋友和家人来参加她的葬礼，农夫不得不杀了牛来招待他们。

所以，下次我们听到我们中任何一个人遇到问题时，不要想这不关我们的事，不会影响我们。记住，当我们中任何一个人遇到麻烦时，我们就都处于危险之中。

生活就是联欢，高兴一点儿，让其他人也高兴起来！

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单词注解

vanity['væniti]n.虚荣

overjoyed[əuvə'dʒɔid]a.欣喜若狂的

intrigued[in'tri：gd]a.好奇的；被迷住了的

deject[di'dʒekt]v.使沮丧，使灰心

venomous['venəməs]a.有毒的

ingredient[in'gri：diənt]n.配料

funeraI['fju：nərəl]n.葬礼

实用句型

Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.

只有爱没有离开，它要坚持到最后一刻。

The wife got sicker and friends and neighbors came by to take turns sitting with her round the clock.

农夫的妻子病得更重了，朋友和邻居们日夜轮流来陪她。

智慧点津

Only time is capable of understanding how valuable love is.

只有时间才能理解爱是多么重要。

Remember that when anyone of us is in trouble, we are all at risk.

记住，当我们中任何一个人遇到麻烦时，我们就都处于危险之中。