双语小说阅读:《谁动了我的奶酪》(2)

      As soon as Hem and Haw arrived at Cheese Station C each morning, they settled in and made themselves at home. They hung up their jogging suits, put away their running shoes and put on their slippers. They were becoming very comfortable now that they had found the Cheese.
      "This is great," Hem said. "There's enough Cheese here to last us forever." The little people felt happy and successful, and thought they were now secure.
      It wasn't long before Hem and Haw regarded the Cheese they found at Cheese Station C as their cheese. It was such a large store of Cheese that they eventually moved their homes to be closer to it, and built a social life around it.
      To make themselves feel more at home, Hem and Haw decorated the walls with sayings and even drew pictures of Cheese around them, which made them smile. One read: Having Cheese Makes You Happy.
      Sometimes Hem and Haw would take their friends by to see their pile of Cheese at Cheese Station C, and point to it with pride, saying, "Pretty nice Cheese, huh?" Sometimes they shared it with their friends and sometimes they didn't.
      "We deserve this Cheese," Hem said. "We certainly had to work long and hard enough to find it." He picked up a nice fresh piece and ate it.
      Afterwards, Hem fell asleep, as he often did.
      Every night the little people would waddle home, full of Cheese, and every morning they would confidently return for more.
      This went on for quite some time.
      After a while, Hem's and Haw's confidence grew into the arrogance of success. Soon they became so comfortable they didn't even notice what was happening.
      As time went on, Sniff and Scurry continued their routine. They arrived early each morning and sniffed and scratched and scurried around Cheese Station C, inspecting the area to see if there had been any changes from the day before. Then they would sit down to nibble on the cheese.
      One morning they arrived at Cheese Station C and discovered there was no cheese.
      They weren't surprised. Since Sniff and Scurry had noticed the supply of cheese had been getting smaller every day, they were prepared for the inevitable and knew instinctively what to do.
      They looked at each other, removed the running shoes they had tied together and hung conveniently around their necks, put them on their feet and laced them up.
      The mice did not overanalyze things.
      To the mice, the problem and the answer were both simple. The situation at Cheese Station C had changed. So, Sniff and Scurry decided to change.
      They both looked out into the Maze. Then Sniff lifted his nose, sniffed, and nodded to Scurry, who took off running through the Maze, while Sniff followed as fast as he could.
      They were quickly off in search of New Cheese.
      Later that same day, Hem and Haw arrived at Cheese Station C. They had not been paying attention to the small changes that had been taking place each day, so they took it for granted their Cheese would be there.
      They were unprepared for what they found.
      "What! No Cheese?" Hem yelled. He continued yelling, "No Cheese? No Cheese?" as though if he shouted loud enough someone would put it back.
      "Who Moved My Cheese?" he hollered.
      Finally, he put his hands on his hips, his face turned red, and he screamed at the top of his voice, "It's not fair!"
      Haw just shook his head in disbelief. He, too, had counted on finding Cheese at Cheese Station C. He stood there for a long time, frozen with shock. He was just not ready for this.
      Hem was yelling something, but Haw didn't want to hear it. He didn't want to deal with what was facing him, so he just tuned everything out.
      The little people's behavior was not very attractive or productive, but it was understandable.
      Finding Cheese wasn't easy, and it meant a great deal more to the little people than just having enough of it to eat every day.
      Finding Cheese was the little people's way of getting what they thought they needed to be happy. They had their own ideas of what Cheese meant to them, depending on their taste.
      For some, finding Cheese was having material things. For others, it was enjoying good health, or developing a spiritual sense of well-being.
      For Haw, Cheese just meant feeling safe, having a loving family some day, and living in a cozy cottage on Cheddar Lane.
      To Hem, Cheese was becoming A Big Cheese in charge of others and owning a big house atop Camembert Hill.
      Because Cheese was important to them, the two little people spent a long time trying to decide what to do. All they could think of was to keep looking around Cheeseless Station C to see if the Cheese was really gone.