英語的寓言故事The Prophet

　　英語寓言故事The Prophet

　　The Prophet

　　A WIZARD, sitting in the marketplace, was telling the fortunes of

　　the passers-by when a person ran up in great haste, and

　　announced to him that the doors of his house had been broken open

　　and that all his goods were being stolen. He sighed heavily and

　　hastened away as fast as he could run. A neighbor saw him

　　running and said, "Oh! you fellow there! you say you can foretell

　　the fortunes of others; how is it you did not foresee your own?

　　真的小猛士：美國9歲男孩徒手斗鱷魚

　　A brave 9-year-old is recovering in hospital after he wrestled a 9-foot, 400lb alligator off him with his bare hands - and he now plans to make a necklace from a tooth doctors found embedded in a wound on his back.

　　美國佛羅里達州一名9歲的小男孩，在湖中游泳時，遭到一條長9英尺(約2.7米長)、重400磅(約180多公斤)的短吻鱷襲擊，赤手與其搏斗之后，小男孩身上多處受傷，目前正在醫(yī)院治療中。醫(yī)生從他背部的傷口里取出一顆短吻鱷的牙齒，小男孩表示想把它做成項鏈。

　　James Barney Jr, spoke calmly and eloquently about his ordeal from hospital, where he was tucked up in bed with a teddy bear by his side. He was covered in some 30 teeth marks, doctors said.

　　小男孩名叫小詹姆斯·巴尼，他在醫(yī)院里平靜、生動地講述了自己與短吻鱷搏斗的經歷，在他床邊還放有一只泰迪熊。醫(yī)生說，小詹姆斯全身有30多處牙印。

　　The little boy described how it was a hot day so he had parked his bike and jumped into Lake Tohopekaliga - a lake that people are forbidden to swim in - when he felt something brush against his leg.

　　小詹姆斯說那天特別熱，于是他就把自行車停在一旁自己跳進了托霍普卡萊加湖，這個湖是禁止人們在里面游泳的，剛一進去他就感覺有東西擦到他的腿了。

　　'It really amazed me what happened. At first, I thought someone was just playing with me, and I didn't know what happened,' he told ABC.

　　“后來發(fā)生的事情真的讓我大吃一驚。但開始的時候，我以為是有人在跟我鬧著玩，我并不知道發(fā)生了什么事情。”他告訴美國廣播公司(ABC)的記者。

　　'I reached down to grab it, and I felt its jaw, I felt its teeth, and I didn't know what to do, so I immediately reacted and hit it a couple times. And I had enough strength to pry its jaw open.' The child pulled the powerful jaws open long enough to slide out and swim to shore.

　　“我潛入水中抓住了它，摸到了它的下巴，摸到了它的牙齒，可不知道該怎么做，不過我立刻就反應過來了趕緊猛打了它幾下，并使勁撐開了它的嘴巴。”小詹姆斯把它的嘴巴撐得足夠大后趕緊退后并向岸邊游去。

　　Witnesses say the boy surfaced, screaming that he'd been bitten by an alligator. They immediately called 911.

　　目擊者稱小男孩浮出水面后尖叫著說自己被一只短吻鱷咬到了。于是他們立刻撥打911報警。