英语智慧背囊14-一只老鼠的麻烦

[00:00.00]The trouble of the mouse 一只老鼠的麻烦
[00:05.73]A little mouse living on a farm
[00:09.89]was looking through a crack in the wall one day
[00:12.64]and saw the farmer
[00:14.15]and his wife opening a package.
[00:16.34]The mouse was intrigued by what food the package might contain.
[00:22.26]He was aghast to discover that is was a mousetrap.
[00:27.61]The mouse ran to the farmyard warning everyone:
[00:31.88]“There is a mousetrap in the house,
[00:34.93]there is a mousetrap in the house.”
[00:37.45]The chicken raised his head and said,
[00:40.84]“Mr. Mouse,
[00:42.48]I can tell you this trap is a grave concern to you,
[00:47.08]but it has no consequence to me
[00:50.13]and I cannot be bothered with it.”
[00:52.88]The mouse turned to the pig,
[00:55.71]but the pig said,
[00:57.14]“I am so sorry Mr. Mouse,
[01:00.41]but the trap is no concern of mine either!”
[01:04.70]The mouse then turned to the bull,
[01:07.86]only to hear
[01:08.85]“It sounds like you have a problem Mr. Mouse,
[01:12.56]but not one that concerns me.”
[01:15.09]The mouse returned to the house,
[01:18.03]head down and dejected
[01:20.87]that no one would help him or has concerned about his dilemma.
[01:25.89]He knew he had to face the trap on his own.
[01:30.60]That night the sound of a trap catching its prey
[01:34.66]was heard throughout the house.
[01:36.84]The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught.
[01:41.10]In the darkness she could not see
[01:43.63]that it was a venomous snake
[01:46.57]whose tail the trap had caught.
[01:49.43]The snake bit the farmer’s wife.
[01:52.69]The wife caught a bad fever
[01:55.56]and the farmer knew the best way to treat a fever was with chicken soup.
[02:01.66]The farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard
[02:04.85]to get the soup’s main ingredient.
[02:07.90]The wife got sicker and friends
[02:11.09]and neighbors came by to take turns sitting with her round the clock.
[02:16.33]The farmer knew he had to feed them,
[02:19.17]so he butchered the pig.
[02:21.37]The farmer’s wife did not get better,
[02:25.19]in fact she died and so many friends and family came to her funeral
[02:30.77]that the farmer had to slaughter the bull to feed all of them.
[02:34.93]So the next time we hear that one of our teammates
[02:39.19]is facing a problem and think it does not concern or effect us,
[02:44.43]let us remember that when anyone of us is in trouble,
[02:49.14]we are all at risk.