
Two Americans were traveling in Spain.
两个美国人在西班牙旅游。
One morning they came into a little restaurant for lunch. They did not know Spanish, and their waiter did not know English. They wanted him to understand that they wanted some milk and sandwiches
.一天上午,他们走进一家小餐馆吃午饭。他们不会说西班牙语,侍者也不会说英语。他们想让侍者知道他们想要点一些牛奶和三明治。
At first they pronounced the word “milk” many times. Then they spelled it. But the waiter could not understand them.
起初,他们说了好多次“牛奶”,接着又写了下来,而侍者还是不明白他们说的是什么。
At last one of them took a piece of paper and began to draw a cow. He was finishing xiaogushi8.com his drawing, when the waiter looked at it and ran out of the restaurant. “Do you see,” said one of the travelers, “what a pencil can do for a man who has difficulties in a foreign country?”
最后,其中一个人拿出一张纸,画了一头牛。画完后,侍者看了一眼,便跑了出去。“看到了吧,”其中的一个人说道,“一支铅笔对一个身在国外并遇到困难的人来说是多么重要!”
The waiter was back again some time after, but he brought no milk.
不一会儿,侍者回来了,不过拿的却不是牛奶。
He put down in front of the two men tickets for a bullfight.
他在这两个人面前放了两张斗牛的表演票。
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