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英语小故事短文：男孩和钉子
Once
there was a little boy who had a bad temper. His
father gave him a
bag of nails and told
him that every time he lost his temper, he must
hammer a nail into the fence.
从前，有一个小男孩，他的脾气很坏。他的父亲送给他一袋钉子。告诉他说，他每
发
一次火，就必须将一颗钉子钉在栅栏上。
The first
day the boy hammered 37 nails into the fence. Over
the next few
weeks, as he learned to
control his anger, the number of nails hammered
daily dwindled down. He discovered it
was easier to hold his temper than
to
drive those nails into the fence.
第一天，<
/p>
男孩将
37
颗钉子钉进了栅栏。
又过了几周，
随着他学会控制自己的怒火，
钉子
的数目日益减少。他发现控制自己的脾气要比往栅栏上钉那些钉子容易。
Finally the day came when the boy
didn
’
t lose his temper at
all. He told his
father about it and
his father suggested that the boy now pull out one
nail
for each day that he was able to
hold his temper.
最后，男孩再也不发火的日子终于来了。他把这件
事告诉了他的父亲。他的父亲建
议他现在每天能控制住自己的脾气，就拔掉一颗钉子。<
/p>
The days passed and one day
the young boy told his father that all the nails
were gone. The father took his son by
the hand and led him to the fence.
The
fence would never be the same.
“
When you say things in
anger, they
leave a scar just like
those nails,
”
his
father said.
又过去了好几天。有一天，男孩对他的父亲说，所有的钉子
都没有了。男孩的父亲
拉住他的手，将他领到了栅栏边。栅栏再也不是从前的样子了。<
/p>
“当你生气的说出
事情时，它们就像那些钉子一样留下了伤疤。”
他的父亲说。
袋鼠与笼子
(Kangaroos
and the Cage)
One day the staff
members of a zoo called a meeting to discuss the
problem--how to deal with the kangaroos
that were found out of the cage.
They
came to the conclusion that the cage was placed
too low and decided
to raise it from
one to two meters high. But the next day the
kangaroos
were still at large and they
again raised the cage to three meters.
有一天，动物园的管理员们发现袋鼠从笼子里跑出来了，
于是开会讨论，一致认
为是笼子的高度过低，所以他们决定将笼子的
高度由原来的
1
米加高到
2
米。结
果第二天他们发现，袋鼠还是跑到外面来，所以他们又决定再将高度
加高到
3
米。
Quite beyond their expectation the next
morning they saw the kangaroos
still
free to go about. They were alarmed and determined
to go to all the
length by raising the
cage to the height of ten meters.
没想到隔天居然又看到袋鼠全跑到外面，于是管理
员们大为紧张，决定一不做二
不休，将笼子的高度加高到
< br>10
米。
Later a
giraffe, while chatting with some kangaroos, asked
them,
“
Do you
think they will go on raising your
cage?
”
一天，长颈鹿和几只袋鼠在闲聊，“你们看，这些人
会不会再继续加高你们的笼
子
?
”长颈鹿问。
“
Hard
to say,
”
said a
kangaroo,
“
if they continue
forgetting to fasten the
cage
door.
”
“很难说。”袋鼠说，
“如果他们再继续忘记关门的话
!
”
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