英语阅读：父子伙伴情(双语).docVIP

美联英语提供：英语阅读：父子伙伴情（双语） 两分钟做个小测试，看看你的英语水平 /test/kuaisu.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 A Boy and His Father Become Partners 父子伙伴情 I like all kinds of chocolate. Best of all, though，I like bitter baking chocolate. Mother had bought a bar of it， and somehow I couldn’t stop thinking about it. 我喜欢各种各样的巧克力，不过我最喜欢那种做糕点用的无糖巧克力。妈妈买了一块这种巧克力，我不知怎么总在不停地打它的主意。 I was helping father on the winnower. It was right then I got the idea.I could whack a chunk off the end of that bar of chocolate. Mother would be sure miss it， but before she had any idea who had done it， I could confess I’d taken it. Probably I would not even get a spanking. 我在帮爸爸扬谷，这时我突然有了个主意，我可以从那块巧克力的一头敲下一块来。妈妈肯定会发现丢了巧克力，但在她意识到这件事是谁干的之前，我可以先承认是我偷吃的，也许连屁股也不会挨打。 I waited until mother was out feeding the chickens. Then I told father I thought I’d go in for a drink of water.I got the bar down?but I heard mother coming just when I had the knife ready to whack. So I slipped the chocolate into the front of my shirt and left quickly. Before I went back to help father, I went to the barn and hid the chocolate there. 我一直等到妈妈出去喂鸡，然后我对爸爸说我要回屋去喝口水。我拿到那块巧克力，但正当我准备用刀切的时候，我听见妈妈进屋的声音，所以就悄悄把巧克力塞进我衬衫的硬衬胸中，赶紧溜出房间。在我回去帮爸爸干活之前，我走进谷仓把巧克力藏在那里。 I told myself that I hadn’t really stolen the whole bar of chocolate， because I meant to take only a little piece.If I put back the whole bar，I wouldn’t have done anything wrong at all. 我对自己说，我并不真的要偷整块巧克力，我只想弄那么一小块。如果我把整块巧克力放回去的话，那我就根本没干过什么错事了。 I nearly decided to put it all back. But just thinking so much about chocolate made my tongue almost taste the smooth bitterness of it. I got thinking that if I slice about half an inch off the end with a sharp knife?mother might never notice it. 我几乎已经决定把它完整无损地放回去了。但是，我对巧克力的向往使我的舌头似乎尝到它那绝妙的味道。我一再想，假如我用快刀从它的一头切下半英寸，妈妈或许不会注意到它的。 I was nearly out to where the cows were when I remembered what father had said once—some of the family money was mine because I had helped to earn it. Why wouldn’t it be all right to figure the bar of chocolate had been bought with my own money？That se