Let me take it down
An elephant said to a mouse ,"no doubt that you are the smallest znd most useless thing that Ihave e ver seen ."
"Pless ,say it again .Let me take it down ."the mouse said ."I will tell a flea what I know."
為我所用
一頭大象對一只小老鼠說：“你無疑是我見過的最小、最沒用的東西。”
“請再說一遍，讓我把它記下來。”老鼠說。“我要講給我認(rèn)識的一只跳蚤聽。
The one-eyed doe
A doe had lost one of her eyes, and could not see anyone approaching her from one side. In order to avoid any danger, she always ate on a high cliff near the sea, and looked at the land with her good eye when she was eating. By this means she could see whenever the hunters approached her on land. But one hunter found out that she was blind in one eye. He rowed a boat under the cliff, and shot her from the sea.
譯文:一只眼睛的母鹿
有頭瞎了一只眼睛的母鹿，沒有辦法看到從瞎了的那只眼的方向靠近她的東西。 為了躲避危險，她總是在海邊的一處高崖上吃草。在她吃東西的時候，她用那只好的眼睛注視著陸地。 用這種方法，她防備來自陸地上的獵人的襲擊。 但是一個獵人發(fā)現(xiàn)她的一只眼睛是瞎的，就劃著船從海上將她射殺了。
Do You Know My Work?
One night a hotel caught fire， and the people who were staying in it ran out in their night clothes.
Two men stood outside and looked at the fire.
“Before I came out，” said one，“I ran into some of the rooms and found a lot of money. People don't think of money when they're afraid. When anyone leaves paper money in a fire， the fire burns it. So I took all the bills that I could find.No one will be poorer because I took them.”
“You don't know my work，” said the other.
“What is your work?”
“I'm a policeman.
“Oh!” cried the first man. He thought quickly and said，“And do you know my work?”“No，”said the policeman.
“I'm a writer. I'm always telling stories about things that never happened.”
譯文：(自己簡單翻譯)
你知道我是干什么的嗎?
一天晚上，一家旅館失火，住在這家旅館里的人穿著睡 衣就跑了出來。
兩個人站在外面，看著大火。
“在我出來之前，”其中一個說：“我跑進一些房間，找到了一大筆錢。人在恐懼中是不會想到錢的。如果有人把紙幣留在火里，火就會把它燒成灰燼。所以我把我所能找到的鈔票都拿走了。沒有人會因為我拿走它們而變得更窮。”
“你不知道我是干什么的。”另一個說。
“你是干什么的?”
“我是警察。”
“噢!”第一個人喊了一聲。他靈機一動，說：“那你知道我是干什么的?”“不知道。”警察說。
“我是個作家。我總是愛編一些從未發(fā)生過的故事。”