One day a lady saw1 a mouse running2 across3 her kitchen floor. She was4 very afraid of mouse, so she ran5 out of the house, got6 into a bus and went to the shops. There she bought a mousetrap(捕鼠器) . The shopkeeper8 said9 to her, Put some cheese in it and you will soon catch that mouse.
The lady went home with her mousetrap, but when she looked in her cupboard, she could10 not find any cheese in it. She did11 not want to go back to the shop, because it was very late, so she cut a picture of some cheese out of a magazine12 and put that in the trap7.
Surprisingly, the picture of the cheese was quite successful13! When the lady came14 down to the kitchen the next morning she found15 a picture of a mouse in the trap beside the picture of the cheese!
有一天某位女性看到一只老鼠在自己家里的厨房地板上窜过。她非常害怕老鼠,所以她冲出屋子,搭上了公共汽车直奔商店。在那儿,她买了一只老鼠夹。店主告诉她:放点奶酪在里面,非常快你就会逮住那只老鼠的。
这位女性携带鼠夹回到家,但她没在碗橱里找到奶酪。她不想再回到商店里去,由于已经非常晚了。于是,她就从一份杂志中剪下一幅奶酪的图片放进了夹子。
让人称奇的是,这画有奶酪的图片居然奏效了!第二天早上,这位女性下楼到厨房时,发现鼠夹里奶酪图片旁有一张画有老鼠的图片。