海盜的寶藏

Peter likes to read the stories about treasure hunting*. One night， Peter had a dream. In the dream， Peter met a pirate. The pirate told him how to find a treasure.

彼得喜歡讀有關尋寶的故事。一天晚上，彼得做了個夢。在夢里，彼得遇到了一個海盜。海盜告訴他如何找到寶藏。

There is a treasure box in your yard*. It’s ten steps* from the porch* and twenty steps from the rose bushes*... 在你家院子里有個藏寶箱。就在距離走廊十步、距離玫瑰花叢二十步的地方……

The next day， Peter woke up*. He could remember* the dream clearly. So he took a spade* and went to the yard. He walked ten steps from the porch and made a mark*. Then he walked twenty steps from the rose bushes and made a mark， too.

第二天，彼得醒來。他能清晰地記得這個夢，于是他拿起鏟子來到院子里。他從走廊那兒開始走了十步，做了個記號，然后從玫瑰花叢那兒開始走了二十步，又做了個記號。

Ha ha， the treasure box must be here! I’ll dig it up*. 哈哈，藏寶箱一定在這兒了！我要把它挖出來。

Peter dug* and dug. He dug a deep* hole*， but he didn’t see the treasure box. So he kept on* digging. The hole got deeper and deeper*.

彼得挖啊挖啊，他挖出了一個深坑，可是沒能見到藏寶箱。于是他繼續挖，坑也越來越深了。

Peter was very tired. He stopped digging and began to look for the treasure box. But he could only find a dog bone*.

彼得挖得很累了，他停止挖坑，開始尋找藏寶箱。可是他僅僅找到了一塊狗骨頭。

But when Peter’s mother saw the deep hole， she was very happy. She always wanted to plant a peach tree in the yard， but she could not dig a deep hole.

但當彼得的媽媽看到這個深坑時，她非常高興。她一直都想在院子里種一棵桃樹，可她挖不了這么深的坑。

哈哈，彼得辛辛苦苦挖了這么深的一個坑，雖然沒找到藏寶箱，但也總算有收獲啊，起碼得到了10美元的獎勵嘛！

其實我認為彼得還是挖到了寶藏的。他幫媽媽實現了在院子里種桃樹的愿望，讓媽媽非常開心。能讓自己的親人健康快樂難道不比金銀財寶更寶貴嗎？