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xiaogua 发表于 2012-5-28 15:33

每日英语故事:5月28日:The Milkmaid and Her Pail of Milk

Dolly , the Milkmaid ,is a good girl, and careful in her work. Her mistress gave her a pail of fresh milk for herself. With the pail upon her head, Dolly tripped seriously along on her way to the town, where she was going to sell her milk.
   " For this milk,” said Dolly, “ I shall get a shilling, and with it I will buy twenty of the eggs laid by our neighbor’ s fine fowls(鸡). “ The mistress will surely lend me a hen(母鸡), and, allowing for all mishaps,I shall raise a good dozen of chicks. “ They will be well grown before the next fair-time comes round,  then those chickens bring the highest price. I shall be able to sell them for a guinea. “ Then I will buy that sweater that I saw in the village the other day, and a hat and ribbons, too; and when I go to the fair, how smart I shall be! “ Robin will be there and will come up and offer to be friends again. But I won’ t come round too easily; and when he wants me for a partner in the dance, I shall just toss up my head ” Here Dolly gave her head the least bit of a toss, when down came the pail, and all the milk was spilled upon the ground. Poor Dolly! It was time to say goodbye to eggs, chickens, sweater, hat, ribbons, and all.

[color=blue][i][b]    "Don’t count your chicken before they are hatched(孵化出).”[/b][/i][/color]

YPJ 发表于 2012-5-28 16:08

Don't count your chicken before they are hatched .  Nice words .

xiaogua 发表于 2012-5-28 20:27

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小钰钰 发表于 2012-5-29 15:13

allowing for all mishaps
这个怎么理解。

xiaogua 发表于 2012-5-29 21:01

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    considering all possibility.就是考虑到所有意外情况和可能性,差不多是说最坏的结果的意思。

chenxihe 发表于 2012-12-28 19:53

interesting.

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