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关于经典的英语故事带翻译 One winter Eric had very little money. His crops had been very bad that year, and his living standard became very low. He thought it would get better after the winter filled with bitter hardships. He gave his donkey less grain, and when after two days the donkey looked just the same. He said to himself, “The donkey was used to eating a lot. Now he is quickly getting used to eating less. And soon, he will get used to living on almost nothing.” 一年冬天，埃里克没什么钱了，那年他的作物收成很差，因此生活水平也变得很低。但他想等这个充满艰辛的冬天过完就会好起来的。他给他的驴子喂的谷物少了些，可两天后，驴子看上去仍然和先前一样，埃里克心想：“驴子以前习惯吃很多东西，但现在它很快就习惯少吃点了，不久它就会习惯不吃东西的。” Each day Eric gave the donkey a little less food until it hardly ate anything. 埃里克每天给驴子的东西都会少一点，直到最后它几乎什么也捞不着吃了。 Then one foggy morning, when the donkey went swinging to market with a load of branches on its back, it suddenly died. “How unlucky I am!” said Eric, “just when my donkey had got used to eating hardly anything, it came to the end of its days in this world.” 一个有雾的早晨，当驴子悲伤驮着树枝摇摇晃晃到市场去时，突然死了。“我太不幸了，”埃里克说，“就在驴子习惯几乎什么也不吃的时候，它却走到了生命的尽头。” Bobs wife was very ill and at last she died on the trolley before a lung operation. After a fewmonths, Bob married again. His new wife was a widow. 鲍勃的妻子得了重病，在做肺部手术前死在了手术车上。几个月后，鲍勃再婚，他的新妻子是个寡妇。 Exactly seven days after he married her, she had a boy. 结婚正好七天的时候，他的妻子生了个小孩。 Bob at once hurried away to the bookshop and bought some pencils, some childrenstextbooks, a rubber and a sharpener. Then he hurried back home again with these things andput them beside the baby. 鲍勃立即赶到书店买了很多铅笔、儿童书籍、橡皮和一个铅笔刀，然后他带着这些东西匆忙赶回家放在孩子身边。 His new wife was very surprised. “What are you doing?” she asked. “The baby wont be able touse those things for a long time. Why are you in such a hurry?” 他的新妻子很奇怪地问：“你在干什么?孩子得等很长时间才能用这些东西，你怎么这么着急啊?” Bob answered, “youre quite wrong, my dear. Our baby is not an ordinary baby. It came inseven days instead of nine months. So it will certainly be ready to learn to read an