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Long long ago， there lived a farmer. He hadthree sons. The three sons were all lazy(1 ) boys. Oneday， the farmer fell ill and was dying( 2 ) . He calledhis sons together and told them that he had hidden(3)a treasure(4 ) in the fields. “Turn the earth(5 ) over forit， ”he said.

After the farmer died， his lazy sons began toturn the earth in the fields. At first they used hoes(6 )to dig( 7 ) the earth. They dug and dug， but found notreasure. Then they used a plough(8) to turn the earthover. They ploughedas deep as ( 9 ) theycould. But they couldnot find the treasure.

It was time forsowing( 10 ) . One of theboys said， “Now that (11 ) theearth is already turned， let’ssow some rice ( 12 ) in thesefields.”

“That’s fine，”the otherssaid. And they began to sow.

When autumn came， they were surprisedto see(13 ) a golden rice harvest( 14 ) in the fields.Their harvest was better than the harvest in anyof their neighbor’s (15 ) fields. Then the boys understood(16 ) what their father said. The fieldsgive treasure to those who work hard.

翻譯小擂臺

1.They ploughed as deep as they could.

2.It was time for sowing.

3.When autumn came， they were surprised tosee a golden rice harvest in the fields.

4.Their harvest was better than the harvest inany of their neighbor’s fields.

5. The fields give treasure to those who workhard.

(1) lazy 懶惰的

(2) dying 臨死的

(3) hidden 是動詞hide 的過去分詞， 埋藏

(4) treasure 財寶

(5) earth 泥土;我們學過theearth 意為“地球”

(6) hoe 鋤頭

(7) dig 開挖; 其后的dug 是dig的過去式

(8) plough 這里是名詞指農作工具“犁”; 也可作動詞表示“犁地”。

(9) as deep as和……一樣深

(10) sow 播種

(11) now that既然

(12) rice 稻子

(13) be surprisedto see 看到#8943;#8943;感到很驚奇

(14) harvest收成， 豐收

(15) neighbor’s鄰居的

(16) understood是動詞understand的過去式，明白

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同學們， 這是一個人人都聽過的故事。可是， 在這兒用英文講給大家聽， 是希望大家潛心學習一下文章的遣詞造句， 爭取背誦下來， 讓它們變成自己的英語“財寶”。