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曾经有个农夫，住在紧挨着公路的地方。虽然这条路没达到车流如织的程度,但时不时地也会有车路过这个农场 在靠近农场大门的公路上有一个大坑,坑里总是积满了水。过往的小车司机难以判断它的深浅,但他们总是以为它是个浅坑。一旦他们真的把车开进水坑，才知道它很深,靠自己是绝对出不来的。 农夫整天一门心思地盯着这个水坑，田里的活计都抛到了脑后。一看见有车陷进坑里，他就驾着拖拉机拖车,然后向司机漫天要价。 —天,有个司机跟他说:“你一天到晚地给人拖车,一定赚了不少吧。” “哪里哪里，”农夫说道，“我晚上可不干这个，晚上我得往坑里灌水。” This Hole in the Ground There was once a farmer who lived near a road. It was not a busy road，but from time to time cars passed the farm. Near the farm gate,there was a large hole in the road. This hole was always full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was probably shallow. Then when they drove into the hole, they could not drive cut because it was so deep. The farmer did not spend much time working on his farm. Instead, he spent most of his time watching the hole. When a car drove into it, he pulled the car out with his tractor and charged the driver a lot of money for doing that. One day,the driver of a car said to him, “You must have made lots of money pulling cars out of this hole night and day. ” “Oh，no，”the farmer said. “I don’t pull cars out of the hole at night. At night 1 fill the hole with water. ” |
