偷曲奇的賊

by Valerie Cox

翻譯：寒星

偷曲奇的賊

The Cookie Thief

by Valerie Cox

翻譯：寒星

如果你是個吃

貨，那么你肯定無法忍受別人未經你允許就分享你的食物。但是，接下來的這個故事有那么一點

不一樣……

A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She bought a book and a bag of cookies in the airport shops.

She was sinking into her book but happened to see that the man sitting beside her1)grabbed a cookie or two from the cookie bag. She tried to2)ignore it to avoid a scene.

So she chewed the cookies loudly and watched the clock, as the3)greedy cookie thief did not stop. She was so angry and thought, “If I wasn’t so nice, I would blacken his eyes.”

With each cookie she took, he took one too. When only one was left, she wondered what he would do. With a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half.

He offered her a half, and ate the other. She grabbed it from him and thought,“Oh! This guy was so4)rude! Why didn’t he even show any5)gratitude?!”

She6)sighed with7)relief when her flight was called. She gathered her8)belongings and headed to the gate, refusing to look back at the rude guy.

She boarded the plane, and sank in her seat. Then she looked for her book. As she opened her bag, she was surprised to see a bag of cookies.

“If mine are here,” she9)moaned, “the others were his, and he tried to share.”Finally, she realized that she was the thief.

有天晚上，一位女士正在機場候機，而她所搭乘的航班還有好幾個小時才起飛。于是她在機場的商店里買了一本書和一袋曲奇。

她漸漸沉浸在書本當中，卻無意間發現坐在她身旁的男士從曲奇袋里拿出了一兩塊曲奇來吃。她試著忽略掉這件事，以免與他起沖突。

于是她大聲地嚼著曲奇，而且不停地看表，但那個貪婪的曲奇小偷并沒有停下來的意思。她非常生氣，心想：“如果不是我心善，他肯定得吃我一拳。”

她每吃一塊曲奇，他也會跟著吃一塊。當曲奇只剩下最后一塊時，她好奇著他會怎么做。而他面帶笑容，緊張地笑了笑，拿起最后一塊曲奇并將它掰成了兩半。

他把其中一半給了她，自己吃著剩下的一半。她從他的手里抓過曲奇，心想：“噢！這個男人真無禮！他怎么就沒有半點感激之情？！”

當航班登機廣播響起時，她如釋重負地嘆了口氣。收拾好行李后，她便朝登機口走去，不愿再多看那個無禮的男人一眼。

她登上了飛機，深陷進座位里，然后去找那本書。打開包時，她驚訝地發現了一袋曲奇。

“如果我的曲奇一直放在這兒，”她喃喃地說，“那么剛才那些曲奇便是他的，原來他一直在跟我分享呢。”到了最后，她意識到自己才是那個偷曲奇的賊。

詞組加油站

sink into/in（思緒、身體）陷入……

happen to do 碰巧做……

avoid a scene 避免吵鬧

blacken one’s eyes將某人的眼睛打青

head to 朝……走去

1) grab [grAb] v. 抓取

2) ignore [I^5nC:] v. 忽視，無視

3) greedy [5^ri:dI] adj. 貪吃的，貪婪的

4) rude [ru:d] adj. 無禮的

5) gratitude [5^rAtItju:d] n. 感激，感謝

6) sigh [saI] v. 嘆氣

7) relief [rI5li:f] n. 寬慰，安心

8) belongings [bI5l?NINz] n.（復）所有物，財物

9) moan [m[Jn] v. 悲嘆，抱怨