【每日学点什么】与猫有关的英文2段
今天分享两个与猫有关的英文段子
01 给猫系铃铛 Belling The Cat
短文大意是：小镇里的一个杂货店里，老鼠泛滥成灾，店主无计可施，只好买了一只漂亮的大肥猫，派它镇守店子。肥猫果然可以相信，它大杀四方，让老鼠们惶惶不可终日。为了鼠生，老鼠们开大会，商量如何对付敌猫，有只看起来聪明的鼠建议给猫带上铃铛，这样可以随时得知敌猫的动向。可是一只老年鼠却给出了一个问题：谁是那只给猫戴铃铛的英雄鼠呢？
There was a grocery shop in a town. Plenty of mice lived in that grocery shop. Food was in plenty for them. They ate everything and spoiled all the bags. They also wasted the bread, biscuits and fruits of the shop.
The grocer got really worried. So, he thought "I should buy a cat and let it stay at the grocery. Only then I can save my things."
He bought a nice, big fat cat and let him stay there. The cat had a nice time hunting the mice and killing them. The mice could not move freely now. They were afraid that anytime the cat would eat them up.
The mice wanted to do something. They held a meeting and all of them tweeted "We must get rid of the cat. Can someone give a suggestion"?
All the mice sat and brooded. A smart looking mouse stood up and said, "The cat moves softly. That is the problem. If we can tie a bell around her neck, then things will be fine. We can know the movements of the cat".
“Yes, that is answer," stated all the mice. An old mouse slowly stood up and asked, "Who would tie the bell?" After some moments there was no one there to answer this question.
killing n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
brooded 孵蛋( brood的过去式和过去分词 )； 沉思
The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boys.
周遭的寂静、森林中的肃穆以及孤独感，慢慢地对这几个孩子的情绪发生了作用。
She brooded on her past mistakes so much that she became ill.
她过于深思从前的错误以致于生病了。
02 吝啬的寡妇 A stingy woman
"She is a very stingy woman. She used to tell her neighbor that she was raising a cat, but she just made the noise of a cat 'Mew, mew'. Maybe she was the stingiest woman."
这是一个非常吝啬的女人，她曾经告诉她的邻居自己养了一只猫，但她只是发出了“喵喵”的声音来骗邻居，也许她是世界上最吝啬的女人。
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2022.2.9
