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一个年轻人把车停在一间乡下加油站旁，加满油付了钱之后，顺便买了一罐饮料。他站在车旁喝着可乐,看到两个人正在路边忙着。一个人先挖一个两到三英尺深的坑，然后继续挖下一个坑。另一个人在他后面填坑。第一个人在前面挖着新坑，第二个人约在后面25英尺处把原来的坑填上。第一个人正好经过喝可乐的年轻人旁边，又继续在路边挖着坑。 "我看不下去了。"年轻人说着把可乐罐扔进了垃圾桶，沿着路边向那两个人走了过去。 “别挖了，别挖了，”年轻人对两个人说，"这样挖有什么用呢？” “哦，我们在为郡政府工作。”其中一人回答道。 “但是你们一个人挖坑，一个人填坑。这样一点用也没有，这不是在浪费郡政府的钱吗？" “你不了解，先生，”一人靠在铁锹上，擦了擦额头，"通常有三个人一起干——我、罗德尼和麦克。我挖坑，罗德尼栽树，麦克再把土填上。” “是啊”麦克点上一袋烟，‘‘今天不能因为罗德尼病了，我们就不干活儿了，你说是吧？” Growing Trees A fellow stopped at a rural gas station and, after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and he watched a couple of men working along the roadside. One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man came along behind and filled in the hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was about 25 feet behind filling in the old. The men worked right past the fellow with the soft drink and went on down the road. "I can't stand this," said the man tossing the can in a trash container and heading down the road toward the men. "Hold it, hold it," he said to the men. "Can you tell me what’s going on here with this digging?" “Well，we work for the county government，" one of the men said. "But one of you is digging a hole and the other is filling it up. You’re not accompli shing anything. Aren’t you wasting the county's money?” "You don11 understand, mister," one of the men said, leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow. “Normally there’s three of us—me, Rodney and Mike. I dig the hole, Rodney sticks in the tree and Mike here puts the dirt back.” “Yea,” piped up Mike. "Now just because Rodney’s sick, that doesn’t mean we can’t work, does it?” |
