时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著


英语课

The Poor Demon 1




Long long ago, there lived a farmer in the village. He had a cow. In spring, the farmer took his cow to the pasture 2 and fed his cow there.

He always prayed to God, “Dear God, thank you for keeping us safe always. I pray that you feed this cow with plenty of grasses here.”
A demon listening to him in the bush 3 was offended 4 at his words. “Now, thanks God while things are going well. But if things turn bad, he will always lay the blame on me. You shall soon see.”

A few days later, the farmer’s cow fell into the pond. The farmer saw his cow struggling in the water and got angry. He cried, “I’m sure a demon has put her in the pond. How cruel this demon is!”


The demon heard this behind the bush and said, “That is what I expected.” The farmer ran to the village for help.


After a while, the demon came out of the bush and pulled the cow from the water. The demon smiled and said, “Now this time, I think the farmer will thank me”. Soon the farmer came back from the villagers. When he found his cow safe on the bank, he said, “Dear God, thank you very much for pulling my cow from the pond.”



1 demon
n.魔鬼,恶魔
  • The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福。
  • He has been possessed by the demon of disease for years.他多年来病魔缠身。
2 pasture
n.牧场,牲畜饲养
  • This is the place where they used to pasture.这就是他们过去经常放牧的地方。
  • The boy got up very early every morning to pasture cattle.这男孩每天起得很早去放牛。
3 bush
n.灌木,灌木丛,矮树
  • This bush has grown up a lot in the last few months.这矮树丛几个月来已向上长高了很多。
  • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.一鸟在手,胜于二鸟在林。
4 offended
v.触怒( offend的过去式和过去分词 );得罪;冒犯;使反感令人不适
  • They'll be offended if you don't go to their wedding. 你若不参加他们的婚礼,他们会生气的。
  • She was offended by the vulgarity of their jokes. 他们那些粗俗的笑话使她大为不快。
学英语单词
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adult-film
alarm bolt yoke
approach trench
atelostomia
audit information
aviation adviser
bagge
band-pass-TR tube
bill of work
brianna
buffer expansion
bursae mucosa
buzzer phone
cap contact
citric acid spot test
Cloud Peak
cloud the issue
column decoding
coppage
copper backing
D-cube state
diabolism
disoccluded
dryland blueberry
dwarf Russian almond
ecological demonstration area
electrolytic cell
Encruzilhada
endodynamic succession
enstatite diopside
galpa
gamma fuel scanning
geens
hardening furnace
Hexabamate
high webbed tee iron
humanas
indexable floating boring tool
industrial discharge
interterritorial
johann gottfried von herders
kidney deficiency
lachrymatories
larding-pin
library professional ethics
lightning protective earthing
loeffler's blood serum medium
make unlawful gains
marine shell dermatitis
maxillary protraction
media of information
medical research
mincer and bowl cutter
module theory
morozovas
motacil
move mode
multiple transfer automatic presses
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non-participant observation
nuclear characteristic
opticochiasmatic
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out-marriage
pathfind
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peribronchial marking
phosphate-hydroxide treatment
planned statement of standardized current capital
polysyllables
potassium orthophosphate
programmed temperature sampling
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pupa contigua
richfields
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semi-chemical pulping process
semi-vitrified wheel
single-acting plunger pump
sinus of thoracic wall
slag concrete block
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sodium iron chlorophyllin
solution cleavage
straight-edge razor
subvocalizing
tape burst signal
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tertiary cell wall
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