【英語故事】The Chicken And The Jewel

The Chicken And The Jewel

One fine morning, acock（公雞）said to thehens（母雞） andchickens（小雞）, 「Come, let us go out to find some food. We have not had our breakfast yet.」 Then the cock began to dig the softearth. Suddenly he cried, 「Look, look! I have found somethingstrange. I wonder what it is. It is like a ball. But it is not a stone. It may be an egg of some bird.」 The hens heard his cry and came around him. One of them said, 「Dear me! This is not an egg, but ajewel. Someone has lost it.」 A chicken asked, 「Can we eat it?」 「No,」 said the hen, 「It is verypreciousto human beings, but it is of no use to us; we cannot eat it. Throw it away and try to find some worms. I want to have onewormthan all the jewels in the world.」

earth[?θ]：地球

strange[strend?]：奇怪的，陌生的

jewel["d?u?l]：珠寶

precious["pr???s]：寶貴的

worm[w?m]：蟲子

一個明媚的早晨，公雞對母雞和小雞們說：「來，我們去找點食物來吃，到現在還沒有吃早飯呢！」於是，公雞開始從鬆軟的土裡刨食。突然，公雞大喊：「快來看！我發現了一個奇怪的東西！看著像個球，但不是石頭，我猜是某種鳥蛋。」母雞們聽到以後趕快跑過來看，有隻母雞說：「天啊！這不雞蛋，而是一顆寶石，肯定是有人丟的。」一隻小雞問：「我們能吃掉它嗎？」 「不能！」母雞說，「對人類來說，這個東西很寶貴，但是對我們來說一點用都沒有，把它扔掉吧，我們還是去找點蟲子來吃比較好，我寧要一條小蟲也不願要全世界所有的寶石。」

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