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天鹅swan[英][swɒn] [美][swɑn] 中英文小故事：天鹅为什么有长长的脖子？ 有一个大大的池塘，湖面上生活着鸭子和鹅。池塘呈天鹅状，因此虚荣的天鹅坚持说它应该叫做天鹅湖。 很多人认为天鹅和鸭子没有多大差别，其实是有差别的。天鹅最初没有长长的脖子，但是他们有美丽的羽毛，苗条的身材，而且他们不像鸭子那样踩水，他们悠然地在水面游水。而鸭子这个时候长得很丑，胖胖的，游泳时只是拼命地踢着短腿。天鹅不许鸭子和他们一起游泳，这激怒了鸭子，因为池塘也是他们的家。 有一天，天鹅和鸭子为谁应该先在池塘里游水而争论不休时，一群鹅游了过来，想看看到底发生了什么事。 鹅听了他们的争吵，发现天鹅很虚伪，而且自认为自己比鸭漂亮优雅，应该先用池塘，鹅还发现鸭子认为应该让他们先用，因为上次轮到他们，天鹅却不让他们用。后来有一只鹅说（更像是鸣叫），他们应该一起用池塘，因为池塘挺大的。果然，天鹅一听就生气了，于是一场战争爆发了。鸭子拽天鹅的脚，鹅叫着咬住天鹅的脖子，使劲地拉。 大约一个小时后打斗结束了。鸭子和鹅站在那儿看着天鹅，觉得很好笑。天鹅的脖子被拽得很长，连头都撑不住。几小时后，天鹅终于把他们的脖子缩短了些，起码可以稳稳地撑起头来。从此，天鹅、鸭子和鹅和平地共享整个池塘，并且不用轮流使用池塘。 但是直到今天，天鹅的脖子还是不短。那些鸭子也不那么丑了，他们也挺漂亮，还优雅了许多。 How the Swan Got a Long Neck? There was a large pond that ducks, and swans shared. It was in the shape of a swan，so the vain swans insisted that it should be called swan lake. Many think that there isn’t much difference between swans and ducks but there is. Swans at first didn’t have long necks but they had beautiful feathers，slender bodies， and they didn’t paddle like ducks，they gracefully swam. The ducks however at this time were ugly，and bulky and just frantically kicked their short legs to swim. The swans wouldn’t let the ducks swim with them, which angered the ducks since they too lived at that pond. One day while the swans and ducks were arguing about which group would swim first，a flock of geese came over as they were passing by to see what all the fuss was about. They listened and found that the swans were vain and thought that since they were prettier, and more graceful， they should use the pond first. They also found that the ducks thought that they should use it because the last time the swans refused to let them have their turn. Then a goose said (more like honked) that they should share the pond since it was rather large. The swans unsurprisingly got mad at this，so a fight broke out. The ducks were pulling at the swans’ feet，and the geese were honking and biting the swans necks，and pulled as hard as they could. About an hour later the fight had ended. The ducks and geese stood there looking humorously at the swans. They had stretched the swans’ necks out so far that they couldn’t hold their heads up. A few hours later the swans had finally shortened their necks at least to the point where they could steadily hold them. But after that day swans, ducks and geese shared all the ponds in peace，and there were no taking turns. But still today the swans have fairly long necks. The ducks however are no longer ugly. They too are pretty, and a little more graceful. 中英文例句 1. The swan unites them across the centuries, and enables carey to raise his vast questions. 这座天鹅把这两个跨越了几个世纪的人联系起来，使作者可以提出他那些深远的问题。 2. He advocates building a society that can limit the damage of black swan events once they inevitably occur. 他主张构建这样一个社会：一旦黑天鹅事件不可避免的发生，它能限制其造成的损失。 3. Next moment instead of leita there was a sleeping swan lying across the bed with its head under its wing. 下一刻不是蕾塔而是一只睡着的天鹅躺在床上，它的头蜷在它的翅膀下。 4. To comfort her in her grief she is assigned a new project: to reconstruct a fantastical 19th-century clockwork swan. 为了减轻痛苦，她接下了一项新工程：重塑一个古怪的19世纪天鹅发条钟。 5. People point to an iran conflict as a "black swan" that could derail mr obama's re-election chances. 人们把伊朗冲突视为“黑天鹅”，认为它可能会断送奥巴马连任的机会。 |
