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中英文小故事：谁会飞得更高？ 有一天，一只乌鸦对另一只说：“你当然知道我能飞得比你高得多。” “别开玩笑了，”另一只乌鸦说。“大家都知道我能比你飞得高得多。” “不，你不能，”第一只乌鸦说 “能，我能，”第二只乌鸦答道。随后，争论就没完没了。 最后，它们决定进行一场比赛，来解决争端。 “我们比一比看谁能带上一袋东西飞得更高，”第一只乌鸦说。 它们就袋子的大小又争论了一阵子。但是，最终达成了协议。 接下来，它们又为每只袋子里装什么东西争论起来。 最后，它们同意第一只乌鸦的袋子里装满棉花、第二只乌鸦的袋子里装满盐。 第一只乌鸦、想，自己真聪明，因为盐比棉花重得多。 最终，它们准备进行这场比赛，它们嘴里衔着袋子，飞上了天空。 然而，它们没飞多久，天就开始下起雨来，正如第二只乌鸦预料的那样。 随着棉花越来越湿，袋子变得越来越重。 然而，盐却溶化在了雨水里。于是，第二只乌鸦就轻而易举地比第一只乌鸦飞得高了。 Who Can Fly Higher? There were once two crows who were fierce rivals. One day, one of the crows said to the other, “You realize, of course, that I can fly much higher than you can.” “Don’t be ridiculous,” the other crow said. “Everyone knows that I can fly much higher than you.” “No，you can’t,” the first crow said. “Yes，I can，，，the second crow replied, and the argument went on and on. At last, they decided to have a contest to settle the issue. “We will compete to find out who can fly higher while carrying a sack,” the first crow said. They argued for some time over the size of the sack, but finally came to an agreement. Then there was further argument about what each sack would contain. At last, they agreed that the first crow would fill his sack with cotton and the second crow would fill his with salt. The first crow thought he was being very clever to agree to this because salt is much heavier than cotton. In the end, they were ready for the contest, and holding their sacks in their beaks, they flew up into the sky. They had not been flying for long, however, when it began to rain—as the second crow had expected it would. As the cotton got wetter and wetter, it became heavier and heavier. However, the salt just dissolved in the rain, so the second crow was easily able to fly higher than the first. fierce 凶猛的；暴烈的 ridiculous 可笑的；荒谬的 settle 解决 issue 问题 compete 竞争；对抗 dissolve 溶解；消失 |
