【一、Sun the Ice】
Once a simpleton's wife told him to buy some ice.
Two hours later, he didn't come back. She wanted to know why he didn't come back and went out to have a look. She saw he was standing in the sun at the gate and watching the ice melting.
"What's the matter?" She asked him. "Why don't you bring it in?"
"I saw the ice was wet and I was afraid that you would scold me so I'm running it dry." The simpleton answered.
曬冰
從前有一個笨人的妻子讓她的丈夫買幾塊冰。
兩個小時後，他還沒回來。
她想知道他為什麼沒回來，就出去看了看，發現她的丈夫在門口站着，在太陽下曬冰，看着冰融化。
她問他："怎麼啦?你為什麼不把它拿進來?"
"我看見冰是濕的，恐怕你會訓斥我，因此，我正在把它曬乾。"笨人回答道。
【二、Mike and the Pot】
One day, Mike's mother needed a pot. She asked Mike to borrow one from her friend. So Mike went to the friend's house. She gave him a big pot. On the way home Mike put it down on the road and looked at it. It was made of clay and had three legs.
Then he said to the pot, "You have three legs and I have only two. You can carry me for a few minutes." Then Mike sat down inside the pot. But the pot didn't move.
Mike got angry and broke it then carried the broke pot home. His mother was angry. "You are stupid." She said. But Mike thought, "I'm not stupid. Only a stupid person carried something with three legs."
邁克和鍋
一天，邁克的媽媽需要一口鍋，她讓邁克向她朋友借一口鍋。於是，邁克去了她的朋友家，她的朋友借個他一口大鍋。在回家的路上，邁克把鍋放在路上看了看它，它是一口粘土製成的三條腿的鍋。
然後他對鍋説："你有三條腿而我只有兩條腿。 你應該揹我一會兒。"然後，邁克坐在鍋裏，但是鍋一動也不動。
邁克很生氣地把鍋打破了，但後拿着破鍋向家裏走去。到家後他的媽媽很生氣地説："你真笨。"但邁克認為："我不笨，只有愚蠢的人才會帶回三條腿的鍋。"
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