刘圈基善良
2016-09-10
Met a Snake by Accident
Last weekend, my cousin Linlin came to my house. She said, “Let’s fly a kite.” I was very happy. This was the first time for me to fly a kite.
Linlin was so clever that she made a kite by herself. She drew a picture on the kite. It looked very beautiful.
“Where are you going to fly?” I asked Linlin.
“We will fly on the hill behind your house,” she said with a smile.
The hill was not high. There were trees and flowers on the hill. Linlin was running with the kite and I was running after her. The kite was flying high in sky. How happy we were!
Suddenly, we stopped. There was a snake in front of us. It made us shocked. How terrible it was!
“Don’t fear. Keep still,” I said to Linlin. We kept silent. I stamped1 my feet without saying any words. The snake was running away soon.
“Why did you stamp your feet?” Linlin asked me in a surprise.
“Snake is not good at seeing things, but it is good at listening to sounds,” I said to her, “When I was a child, my father told me when you meet a snake, you should keep quiet. It will not attack2 you until you are moving all the time.”
遇蛇奇记
上个周末,我表妹琳琳来到我家。她说:“我们去放风筝吧。”我很开心。这是我第一次放风筝。
琳琳很聪明,她自己亲手做的风筝。她在风筝上画了画,看起来很漂亮。
“你打算去哪儿放风筝呢?”我问琳琳。
“我们去你家的后山上放。”她笑着说。
后山并不高。山上有树有花。琳琳牵着风筝跑,我在后面追着她跑。风筝在空中飞得很高。我们玩得很开心!
突然,我们停住脚步。在我们面前有一条蛇。我们大为震惊,太可怕啦!
“别害怕,别乱动。”我对琳琳说。我们一直都不出声。我不说话只是跺了跺脚。蛇很快跑开了。
“你为什么跺脚?”琳琳诧异地问我。
“蛇视力不好,但是听力很好。”我说,“小时候,爸爸对我说过的。当你遇见蛇的时候,你应该保持安静。蛇是不会攻击你,除非你老是乱动。”
我们听见爸爸在喊我们回去吃晚饭,于是转身下山回家。我一回到家就把偶遇蛇的事情告诉爸爸。爸爸说:“蛇和人类也是朋友。我们不攻击它们,它们也不会攻击我们。”
We heard that my parents calling us to have dinner so we returned down the hill to back home. I told the accident to my father as soon as I got home. My father said, “Snakes and people are also friends. We don’t attack them, and they won’t attack us.”