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
'Atūd
acceptor rnas
air-vent valve
anka
Anopheles maculipennis atroparvus
arsonium halide
Atamisqui
Barbar, Jabal al
Bedouaram
body-bag
border control
casing collar locator
constant current potentiometry
copper netting
cross-slide
cupola cleaning door
Curaya, R.
Cwmbran
d-tetrahydroharmine
data-entry terminal
deticker
direct action solenoid valve
elocutes
emogene
enterprise management psychology
events data
filled
filmwise condensation
fine paper
flux dipping
formal operations
garbage in, garbage out
grab stand
Herreros
host structure
infinitesimal neighbourhood
King Cliffs
lateral drainage
lateral guide
lepidochelys olivaceas
local anaethesia
Luz, I.de la
margaret
marine paint
melastoma malabathricums
melodyplaying
microturbulence theory
mimotopes
minced meat omelette
MLIG
morphophonological
multinomial sampling model
nanetti
Neukloster
Nordfjorden
octagon steel
off-basest
oxidation film
packaging technique
pieceworks
Pinsk
planar rotation matrix
portable character set
precursores
produer
protozoal
prove true
pseudoventricte
pyrops candelaria
quadrature motion
quick-action bow
radix dioscoreae
resourcings
rio colorado
rock mover
scene-stolen
screw-type stop
semi-chilled mould casting
shadow scattering
shastalite
single ended mode
Slavyanovo
small glove box
spatial charge
special road
spot-checks
standing grain
subroutine call sequence
tarhe
terminal condition
top fermenation
total flight time
transfigurate
transnational market
unbound particle
unflod
Vaginularia
welful
where's
wire-tapping
wordley
zoloft