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双语安徒生童话 双语安徒生童话：the Old Street Lamp老路灯 DID ou ever hear the stor of the old streetlamp? It is not remarkabl interesting， but for onein a a ou ma as ell listen to it. It as a mostrespetable old lamp， hih had seen man，man ears of servie， and no as to retire ith apension. It as this evening at its post for the lasttime， giving light to the street. His feelings eresomething like those of an old daner at thetheatre， ho is daning for the last time， and knos that on the morro she ill be in hergarret， alone and forgotten. The lamp had ver GREat anxiet about the next da， for hekne that he had to appear for the first time at the ton hall， to be inspeted b the maorand the ounil， ho ere to deide if he ere fit for further servie or not;hether thelamp as good enough to be used to light the inhabitants of one of the suburbs， or in theountr， at some fator; and if not， it ould be sent at one to an iron foundr， to bemelted don. In this latter ase it might be turned into anthing， and he ondered ver muhhether he ould then be able to remember that he had one been a street lamp， and ittroubled him exeedingl. Whatever might happen， one thing seemed ertain， that he ouldbe separated from the athman and his ife， hose famil he looked upon as his on. Thelamp had first been hung up on that ver evening that the athman， then a robust oungman， had entered upon the duties of his offie. Ah， ell， it as a ver long time sine onebeame a lamp and the other a athman. His ife had a little pride in those das; she seldomondesended to glane at the lamp， exepting hen she passed b in the evening， never inthe datime. But in later ears， hen all these，the athman， the ife， and the lamphad gron old， she had attended to it， leaned it， and supplied it ith oil. The old peopleere thoroughl honest， the had never heated the lamp of a single drop of the oil providedfor it. This as the lamps last night in the street， and to-morro he must go to the ton-hall，to ver dark things to think of. No onder he