2021年1月23日发(作者：arrivals)

双语美文：会思考的鱼


Once there was a fish who lived in the great ocean, and because the water was
transparent, he didn’t know he was in the ocean. Well, one day the fish did a
very dangerous thing, he began to think: “Surely I am a most remarkable being,
since I can move around like this in the middle of
empty space.” Then the fish
became confused because of thinking about moving and swimming, and he
suddenly had an anxiety
convulsion
and thought he had forgotten how.
从前大海里有一条鱼。由于海水是透明的，所以他不知道自己在海洋里 。有一天，
他萌生了
一个非常危险的想法：
“
我一定是最了不起的生物了，因 为我可以在这样空旷的地方随意移
动。
”
接着小鱼就一直思考着游泳的事儿，越想越困 惑。突然，他由于焦虑发生了痉挛，以
为自己忘记了怎么游泳。

At that moment he looked down and saw the yawning
chasm
of the ocean
depths, and he was terrified that he would drop. Then he thought: “If I could
catch hold of
my tail in my mouth, I could hold myself up.” And so he cu
rled
himself up and snapped at his tail. Unfortunately, his spine wasn’t
quite
supple
enough, so he missed. As he went on trying to catch hold of his tail,
the yawning black
abyss
below became ever more terrible, and he was brought
to the edge of total nervous breakdown.
那时，
他看着自己下方那深不可测的大 峡谷，
如同张着血盆大口一般，
他好害怕自己会掉下
去。
他想：
“< br>如果我可以用我的嘴巴接住尾巴，
那我就可以抓住自己，
不会往下掉啦！
”于是，
他把身子蜷成一团，去咬他的尾巴。不幸的是，他的脊椎不够灵活，并没有咬住。他继续尝< br>试着，下方黑色的深渊显得更可怕了，小鱼觉得自己快要崩溃了。

The fish was about to give up, when the ocean, who had been watching with
mixed feelings of
pity and amusement, said, “What are you doing?” “Oh,”
said
the fish, “I’m terrified
of
falling into the deep dark abyss, and I’m trying to catch
hold of
my tail in my mouth to hold myself up.” So the ocean said, “Well, you’ve
been trying that for a long time now, and still you haven’t fallen down. How
come?”

“Oh,
of
course, I haven’t fallen down yet,” said the fish, “because,
because--
I’m swimming!”

在小鱼快要放弃的时候 ，
大海发话了，他一直观察的小鱼的一举一动，
感到同情又好笑。大
海说：
“
你在干什么？
”“
噢
,
小鱼回答，

我怕自己会掉进 下面那个大峡谷里，所以我试着用
嘴巴接住尾巴，这样就不会掉下去。
”
然后大海说：
“
那么，你已经试了这么久了，却还没有
掉下去，这又是为什么呢？
”“噢，我当然还没有掉下去，
”
小鱼说，
“
那是因为，因为我在游
泳呀！
”


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