鷸蚌相爭

湖北省十堰市 喻熙 供稿

鷸蚌相爭

湖北省十堰市 喻熙 供稿

Just as a clam came out to bask in the sun,a snipe pecked at its flesh.The clam closed its shell and squeezed the snipe’s beak.

“If it does not rain today and it does not rain tomorrow,you will be a dead clam,”said the snipe.

“If you cannot free yourself today and you cannot free yourself tomorrow,you will be a dead snipe,”replied the clam.

Neither would give up and eventually a fisherman caught both the clam and the snipe.

Notes:(1)snipen.鷸 (2)clamn.蚌 (3)eventuallyabv.最終，最后

Exercises:

回答下列問題：

1.What happened to a clam when it came out to bask in the sun?

2.What did a fisherman catch?

3.Why could the fisherman catch both the clam and the snipe?

一只河蚌出來曬太陽，被鷸啄住了它的肉。河蚌馬上合上雙殼，鉗住了鷸的嘴。

鷸說：“如果今天不下雨，明天不下雨，你將會變成一只死河蚌。”

河蚌也對鷸說：“如果你的嘴今天不出來，明天也不出來，那么你將變成一只死鷸。”

兩者都不肯讓對方，這時，一位漁翁不費吹灰之力把它們兩個都擒住了。