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开心乐园
作者：王昌兰
Teacher：We all know that beat causes an object to expand(膨胀) and cold causes it to contract(收缩,缩小). Now，can anyone give me a good example(例子)?
老师：我们都知道热胀冷缩的道理。现在，谁给我举个例子？
John：Well,in the summer the days are long，and in the winter the days are short.
约翰：嗯，在夏天天都长，在冬天天都短。
二
Mother: Did you eat all the cookies, Tom?
妈妈：汤姆，你把饼干都吃光了？
Tom: Oh, mum, I didn't touch one.
汤姆：哦，妈妈，我一个没碰过。
Mother: That's strange. There's only one left.
妈妈：这就奇怪了，现在就剩下一个了。
Tom: That's the one I didn't touch.
汤姆：那个就是我没碰过的。
三
“Boy, why have you got cotton-wool in your ear? Is it infected?”
“孩子，你为什么用棉花塞住耳朵？它感染了吗？”
“No, sir, but you said yesterday that everything you told me went in one ear and out the other, so I am trying to stop it.”
“没有，老师。可是你昨天说你告诉我的知识都是一个耳朵进，一个耳朵出，所以我要把它堵在里面。”
四
“I'm sorry，Madam，but I shall have to charge you twenty dollars for pulling your boy's tooth.”
“对不起，夫人，为您孩子拔牙我要收取20美元。”
“Twenty dollars! Why，I understand you to say that you charged only four dollars for such work？”
“20美元！为什么？不是说好只要4美元的吗？”
“Yes，but this youngester yelled so terribly that he scared four other patients out of the office.”
“是的，但是您的孩子大喊大叫，把另外四个病人吓跑了。”
五
“Tom, I hear you've been fighting with one of those boys next door and have given him a black eye.”
“汤姆，听说你一直在和隔壁家的一个小男孩儿打架，还把他的眼睛打成黑眼圈了。”
“Yeah. You see, they are twins and I want some way to tell them apart.”
“对呀，他们是双胞胎，我想找个办法把他们区分开。”