一天,小马驮着麦子去磨坊。
当他驮着口袋向前跑去时,突然发现一条小河挡住了去路。小马为难了,这可怎么办呢?
它向四周望了望,看见一头奶牛在河边吃草。小马问道:“牛阿姨,请您告诉我,这条河我能趟过去吗?”
奶牛回答说:“水很浅,刚到膝盖。”
小马正准备过河,突然丛树上跳下一只松鼠,拦住它大叫道:“小马,别过河!你会被淹死的。昨天,我的一个伙伴就在这条河里淹死啦!”小马不知如何是好,于是决定回家问问妈妈。
小马把路上的经历告诉了妈妈。妈妈说:“孩子,光听别人说是不行的,你自己亲自去试一试,就知道答案了。”
小马回到河边,刚要下水,松鼠又大叫起来:“小马,你不要命啦?”
小马说:“让我自己试试吧。”它一面回答一面下了河,小心地趟了过去。原来河水既不像老牛说的那样浅也不像松鼠说的那样深。
这下明白了吧,实践才能出真知。
【 How a Colt Crossed the River】
One day, a colt took a bag of wheat to the mill.
As he was running with the bag on his back,he came to a small river.
The colt could not decide whether he could cross it. Looking around,he saw a cow grazing nearby. He asked,“Aunt Cow, could you tell me if I can cross the river?”
The cow told him that he could and that the river was not very deep,just knee high.
The colt was crossing the river when a squirrel jumped down a tree and stopped him.