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【篇一】第52期

Johnson and the Smell of Soup

One day,a poor man who had only one piece of bread to eat

was walking past a restaurant.

There was a large pot soup on the table.

The poor man held his bread over the soup,

so the steam from the soup went into the bread,and gave it a good smell.

Then he ate the bread.

The restaurant owner was very angry at this,

and he asked the man for money,in exchange for the steam from the soup.

The poor man had no money,

so the restaurant owner took him to Johnson,who was a judge at that time.

Johnson thought about the case for a little while.

Then he took some money from his pocket.

He held the coins next to the restaurant owner's ear,and shook them,

so that they made a jingling noise."What was that?"asked the restaurant owner.

"That was payment for you,"answered Johnson.

"What do you mean? That was just the sound of coins!"

protested the restaurant owner.

"The sound of the coins is payment for the smell of the soup,"

answered Johnson."Now go back to your restaurant."

【篇二】譯文

約翰遜和湯的味道

一天，一個窮人手里拿著一塊蛋糕，

經(jīng)過飯店。

飯店的桌子上有一口大鍋，

于是他拿起蛋糕懸在湯的上面，

讓湯的蒸汽進入面包，從而得到一個香饃。

然后他吃得津津有味。

飯店老板看到這很憤怒要這個窮人為湯的蒸汽付錢，

要這個窮人為湯的蒸汽付錢。

因為這個窮人身無分，

所以老板將帶到法官約翰遜面前。

約翰遜想了一會兒，

然后他從口袋里拿出一些錢。

他把銅板放在飯店老板的耳旁，然后搖動它們，

使它們發(fā)出丁丁當當?shù)穆曇簟?quot;那是什么?"飯店老板問。

那是付給你的錢。"約翰遜回答道。

"你是什么意思？那只不過是銅板的聲音！"

飯店老板抗 議道。

"銅板的聲音用來支付湯的味道，"

約翰遜回答道，"現(xiàn)在你可以回飯店了。"