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在一个村子里，父母们这样告诉他们的孩子：“无论如何，你们都不能到山顶附近。那里有妖怪!”以前的孩子们都很重视这个告诫，因而从没有人走近过山顶。 一天，村中一些勇敢的年轻人决定去看看这个妖怪——去看看它到底长得什么样并且打败它。因此他们带了粮食，开始向山上进发。走到半路上，他们被一阵巨大的吼叫声和一种可怕的臭气阻止了脚步。有一半人尖叫着跑回山下。 另一半人继续前进。当他们离山顶更近时,他们发现妖怪比他们想象得小—些了——但是它依然不断地发出吼叫并且发出臭气。除一个人之外，其他所有人为了逃命都奔下山，回到了村子。 “我将抓住妖怪! ”仅剩的一个人边自言自语边继续向前走。这时候妖怪开始缩小，直到和人的大小一样。当他向妖怪又近了一步,它再次缩小，依然丑陋，并且继续散发出臭气,但是这个人现在离妖怪如此接近，他可以把它捡起来放在手掌中。他看了看它，对妖怪说：“你到底是谁?” 嗓音细小且尖锐，妖怪尖叫道：“我的名字叫恐惧!” A Story of Fear In a village,the children were told by their parents，‘‘Whatever you do,don’t go near the top of the mountain. It's where the monster lives!” All the previous generations of children had heeded this warning and not gone near the top of the mountain. One day, some brave young men in the village decided that they had to go and see the monster to see what it was really like and to defeat it. So they loaded their packs with provisions and set off up the mountain. Halfway up, they were stopped in their tracks by a huge roar and a terrible stench. Half the men ran down the mountain screaming. The other half of the group continued on their journey. As they got further up the mountain, they noticed that the monster was smaller than they had expected but it continued to roar and emit the stench that had all but one of the men running for their lives back down the mountain into the village. “1 am going to get the monster. ”the one remaining man said to himself, and took another step forward. As he did so,the monster shrank until it was the same size as the man. As he took another step towards the monster, it shrank again, it was still hideously ugly and continued to emit the stench, but the man was so close to the monster now that he could actually pick it up and hold it in the palm of his hand. As he looked at it, he said to the monster，“ Well，then，who are you?” In a tiny,high-pitched voice,the monster squeaked，‘‘My name is fear!” |
