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一次，小鼹鼠向妈妈吹嘘，他能看见东西。妈妈心里很明白，鼹鼠都是看不见的:他们生活在黑暗的地洞里，不必看见要去往哪里。她决定弄清楚小鼹鼠是否在撒谎，于是准备试他一试。她把一块香皂放在小鼹鼠面前。 “看见什么了？”妈妈问。小鼹鼠用鼻子轻轻地碰了碰坚硬的香皂。“是石头,妈妈。”他说。妈妈笑了。 “你不但和我们其他的同类一样看不见，”妈妈说，“而且连嗔觉也没有。如果不是你吹嘘能看见东西，我永远也不会发现这一点。 The Mole and His Mother A young Mole once boasted to his Mother that he could see. Now the Mother knew very well that all Moles are blind：They live in dark underground burrows and do not need to see where they are going. She decided to find out whether the young Mole was lying and she prepared a test. She laid a lump of sweet-smelling soap in front of him. “Now，what do you see?” she asked. The young Mole touched the hard soap gently with his nose. “A stone，Mother,，，he said. The Mother laughed. “You are not only blind like the rest of us，’she said，“but you have no sense of smell either. If you had not boasted about being able to see I would never have found out about that. |
