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一天，一个小丑想到动物园中表演杂耍赚点钱。他刚吸引了一群人的注意就被动物园里的管理员逮到，把他拽到了办公室里。 管理员跟小丑解释说，动物园里最有人气的大猩猩突然死了，管理者害怕动物园的客流量会减少。他给小丑一份工作，让他打扮成大猩猩的样子，直到他们另外找到一只猩猩为止。小丑接受了这份工作。 于是，第二天在游客到来之前小丑就穿上了大猩猩的衣服进了笼子。他发现这份工作非常棒。他可以随意睡觉，在人们面前玩耍逗他们开心，比他在街上耍杂技更能吸引人注意。 但是，最终人们开始厌倦他，而他也厌倦了只是在汽车轮胎上荡来荡去。他发现人们更喜欢隔壁笼子里的狮子。为了继续吸引观众的注意，他爬到笼子的顶上，爬过横杆，从狮子的笼子顶上荡过。当然，这令狮子非常害怕，但是观众们却很喜欢。下班的时候，动物管理员多给了小丑一点钱，作为招徕观众的奖励。 这样过了一段时间，小丑继续嘲弄狮子，围观的人越来越多，小丑的工资也越来越多。 一天他在狮子的笼子顶上晃荡的时候滑落了下来。小丑非常害怕。狮子竖起了毛准备扑过去。小丑非常害怕，于是开始绕着笼子跑，狮子在后面穷追不舍。 最后，小丑开始叫喊：“救命!救命!” 狮子迅速地扑上来。小丑被压在了下面，仰面看着这只愤怒的狮子。 狮子说道:“闭上你的嘴，白痴，不然我们谁也保不住工作！” Mime’s Job in the Zoo One day a mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, the zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office. The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the zoo’s most popular attraction, a gorilla, died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts. So the next morning before the crowd arrive the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people and he draws larger crowds than he ever did as a mime on the street. However, eventually the crowd tires of him and he tires of just swinging on auto tires. He notices that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the next cage. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top of the lion’s cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it. At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowd grows larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one day when he is dangling over the top of the lion’s cage, he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion raises himself up and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run around the cage with the lion in hot pursuit. Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, “Help! Help me!” The lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat, and on his back looking up at the angry lion. The lion says, "Shut up you idiot or we’ll both lose our jobs!” |
