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英语小寓言故事 Once there was a fellow desperately in need of water for his thirst. On seeing the blazing fog, he mistook it for water. He pursued it until he reached the Indus River. But he only looked at it without drinking. A bystander asked, You are suffering from thirst. How that you have found water, why dont you drink it? The fellow answered, If I could drink up all that water, I would do it. Since there is more water than I can finish, I would rather not drink it at all. As soon as people heard this, they laughed aloud at him. The teacher asked her students in class: If there are five flies on your desk and you kill one, how many will remain? One, shouted a boy, the dead one. The teacher said: You should know that there are still four not dead. The boy replied: I know, but they have flown away. He is right. Arithmatic is one thing, but logic is another. A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee咖啡粉 beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, Tell me ,what do you see? Carrots, eggs, and coffee, the young woman replied. The mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she