英語故事：The mouse 老鼠

　　The mouse 老鼠

　　A philosophical mouse spoke loudly in praise of nature's goodness for having made the mice such particular objects of her concern and protection.

　　"For," she said, "one half of us is provided by her with wings, so that if all here below were killed by cats, she could easily restore our extinguished race by means of the bats."

　　The good little mouse didn't know that there were also flying cats and thus does our pride chiefly rest on ignorance.

　　一只超然豁達(dá)的老鼠高聲頌揚(yáng)大自然的仁厚，贊美它對鼠輩們所給予的特別的關(guān)愛。

　　老鼠說：“自然之神賦予我們這個種族中一半的成員以翅膀。就算貓將地上所有的老鼠殺戮，自然之手借助飛天蝙蝠不費吹灰之力就能恢復(fù)我們這個滅絕的種族。”

　　這只善良的小老鼠不知道天上還有飛貓，不難看出驕傲源于無知。

　　philosophical

　　adj.哲學(xué)家的，哲學(xué)上的，達(dá)觀的

　　參考例句：

　　The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老師不能解答這個哲學(xué)問題。

　　She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她對自己的不幸看得很開。

　　2 spoke

　　n.(車輪的)輻條;輪輻;破壞某人的計劃;阻撓某人的行動 v.講，談(speak的過去式);說;演說;從某種觀點來說

　　參考例句：

　　They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他們的輪輻螺帽是從我們公司獲得的。

　　The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.輻條是輪子上連接外圈與中心的條棒。