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水龟terrapin[英]['terəpɪn] [美][ˈtɛrəpɪn] 中英文小故事：水龟和负鼠 水龟和负鼠是好朋友。他们喜欢一起摘了柿子，边晒着太阳边吃。有一天，他们发现一棵树最顶端的枝上长满了成熟的柿子。负鼠就爬上去摘下柿子，扔给水龟.水龟用前爪慢慢地把柿子滚到一起堆成一堆儿。 一只狼在丛林中闲逛，发现了他们，便停下来躲在一颗树后面观望。他也喜欢柿子，他眼前的这些柿子又大又黄，在阳光下闪着耀眼的光泽。他用长舌头舔了舔下巴，想象着柿子会是多么好吃，觉得负鼠已经把柿子扔下来了，自己可真是太幸运了。 狼一路小跑来到水龟的柿子堆前，伸出一条前腿，把两个柿子滚到自己眼前。水龟害怕了，把头和腿都缩到壳里，蜷缩起身体，就像一块石头一样。 "走开！"负鼠从树枝间往下怒目而视，喊道，“这是我们的果子，你去找另一棵树。”狼根本不理会负鼠的话，开始大口吃起柿子来。 负鼠气得在树枝上窜上跳下。"喂，狼捡掉在地上的果子没什么好玩的，你是不是太累了跳不起来接新鲜柿子了？” 负鼠又开始往下扔柿子，狼跳到空中张嘴来接。这时负鼠折下一根尖尖的小树枝，在扔柿子的间隙扔了下去。狼那时已经兴奋过度，无论掉下什么都会张嘴来接，他用嘴巴一下子接住一根小树枝和一个柿子，小树枝刺进他的喉咙里，狼卡死了。 水龟慢吞吞地爬过去，戳了戳狼，确定狼死了。“我要拿他的耳朵当勺子用。”她说。 水龟用她锋利的爪子把狼的两只耳朵撕下来，挥了挥手和负鼠告别。负鼠则稳稳当当地坐在一根树枝上继续吃柿子。 水龟走进村里，因为村里的妇女总是把盛粥的罐子放在门边。在接下来的两天中，水龟挨家挨户用狼的耳朵从罐子里舀粥喝。她喃喃地说：“我太喜欢喝粥了，就像爱吃柿子一样。" 很快，水龟杀死了狼，并用他的耳朵当勺子偷粥喝的消息四处传开了。其他的狼聚集在一起，尾随着水龟，在夜里捉住了她。 ‘‘我没有杀狼，"水龟大喊。“就是你，你杀了他。”众狼说道，"大家都说你杀了狼——而且你拿了他的耳朵。" 众狼召开了一次会议来决定如何处置水龟，他们决定把她放在一个陶罐里煮。水龟笑道：“我的后腿比陶土还强壮，你们把我放在陶罐里，我会把它打得粉碎。” 众狼又讨论了一下，决定用火把水龟烧死。水龟又笑了：“我的壳会保护我的。我会在火里打滚，把火扑灭。” 众狼又想了想。"那我们就把你带到河边，扔在最深的地方淹死你、。”头狼说道。 水龟假装吓得发抖，在壳里摇摆个不停。“不，请不要那么做。水那么深，我的壳又那么重，我会沉下去的！”她喊道。众狼大笑起来。 他们把水龟拖到河边，两只最大的狼使出全身力气把她扔到最远处，水龟正巴不得他们这样呢。啪！水龟跌到水里，朝着河底的水草潜去。可是河水浑浊，视线不好。她砰地一下子撞在一块尖尖的大石头上，壳碎成了许多块儿。 水龟大惊失色，沉到河底的水草里。她唱起一首疗伤的歌：“我将自己缝起来，我将自己缝起来。”河水冲刷着她，慢慢地，她的碎壳片又长到一起了。 但是龟壳表面不再光滑，疤痕形成了脊状，组成了一种图案。直到今天，水龟还背着这种图案的壳。 Terrapin and Possum were friends. They liked to gather persimmon fruit and eat it together in the sun. One day they found a tree with ripe fruit in its top branches. Possum climbed up, picked the persimmons and threw them down to Terrapin, who slowly rolled them into a pile with her front claws. A wolf sauntered1 through the bushes and stopped to watch behind a tree. He liked persimmons too, and these were big and shiny orange. He licked his jaws with his long tongue, imagining how tasty the fruit would be and thinking how lucky it was that Possum had already thrown them down. The wolf trotted over to Terrapin’s fruit pile, stretched out one of his front legs and rolled two of the persimmons towards him. Terrapin pulled her head and legs inside her shell, frightened, and huddled like a stone. “Go away!” shouted Possum, glaring down through the tree branches. “This is our fruit. Find another tree.” The Wolf ignored Possum and began to eat the fruit. Possum jumped up and down on his branch angrily. “Hey, Wolf. It’s no fun taking fruit that’s already on the ground. Are you too tired to jump and catch fresh fruit?” He started throwing persimmons down again and Wolf leaped in the air and caught them in his teeth. Then Possum broke off a sharp piece of twig and threw it down among the persimmons. Wolf, who was excitedly catching everything that fell, snapped his jaws around the twig and a persimmon. The twig stuck in his throat and he choked to death. Terrapin waddled2 over and poked him to make sure he was dead. “I’ll take his ears to use as spoons.” she said. And she cut off his ears with her sharp claws. Then she waved goodbye to Possum, who settled himself on a branch and carried on eating persimmons. Terrapin walked into the village. Over the next two days she went from house to house, dipping the ears into the jars of gruel that the women always kept by their doors. “Yum,” she muttered. “I love gruel as much as 1 love persimmons.” Soon the news went around that Terrapin had killed Wolf and was using his ears as spoons to steal gruel. Other wolves got together and followed Terrapin, and took her prisoner during the night. “I didn’t kill Wolf,” cried Terrapin. “Yes you did，，，said the wolves. “Everyone says you did—and you’ve got his ears.” The Wolves held a council meeting to decide what to do with Terrapin. They decided to boil her in a clay pot. Terrapin laughed and said, “my back feet are stronger than clay. I’ll smash any pot you put me into”. The Wolves talked it over again. They decided to burn Terrapin in the fire. Again Terrapin laughed. “My shell will protect me. I’ll roll on the fire and put it out.” The Wolves thought again. “We’ll take you to the river and throw you in at the deepest point, to drown you”，said their leader. Terrapin pretended to tremble and rock in her shell. “No. Please don’t. The water is so deep and my shell is so heavy, I’ll sink!” she cried. The Wolves laughed. They dragged her to the river and the two biggest Wolves threw her as far out over the water as they could. This was just what she wanted. Splash! She hit the water and dived down towards the weeds at the bottom. But the water was muddy and she couldn’t see clearly. She thumped3 into a jagged rock and her shell cracked in many places. Stunned, she floated down into the weeds. Then she sang a healing song. “I will sew myself together, I will sew myself together.” The water washed around her and slowly the pieces of her shell came together again. But the shell’s surface was no longer smooth. Scars formed ridges, which made a pattern. Terrapin carries this shell pattern to this day. 1. saunter n. & vi.闲逛，漫步 2. waddle n. & vi.瞒跚而行 3. thump v.重击；砰然地响w.重击；重击声 中英文例句 1. The diamondback terrapin in this undated photo has two heads. 这张未标日期的图片上的钻纹龟有两个头。 2. He currently holds a monthly residency with squints at terrapin in boise. 他目前持有居留每月在鳖与斜视在博伊西。 3. Another problem is that the terrapin population is very old-and not being replaced. 另一个问题是这些钻纹龟年纪很大它们没有变过。 4. He also owns a two-headed goat, a two-headed terrapin and the world's only living three-headed turtle. 他还拥有双头山羊、淡水龟，以及世上现存唯一的三头乌龟。 |
