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Once upon a time there was a hare who, boasting how he could run faster than anyone else, was forever teasing tortoise for its slowness. Thenone day, the irate [aɪ'ret] （生气的） tortoise answered back: “Who do you think you are? There’s no denying you’re swift （敏捷）, but even you can be beaten!” The hare squealed [skwil]（尖叫） with laughter.

“Beaten in a race? By whom? Not you, surely! I bet there’s nobody in the world that can win against me, I’m so speedy. Now, why don’t you try?”

Annoyed（烦恼） by such bragging (吹牛), the tortoise accepted the challenge. A course was planned, and the next day at dawn [dɔn]（黎明） they stood at the starting line. The hare yawned [jɔn]（打哈欠）sleepily as the meek（温顺的） tortoise trudged [trʌdʒ]（长途跋涉）slowly off. When the hare saw how painfully slow his rival （对手） was, he decided, half asleep on his feet, to have a quick nap（小睡）. “Take your time!” he said. “I’ll have forty winks（眨眼） and catch up with you in a minute.”

The hare woke with a start from a fitful（断断续续的） sleep and gazed round, looking for the tortoise. But the creature was only a short distance away, having barely covered a third of the course. Breathing a sigh of relief（松了口气）, the hare decided he might as well have breakfast too, and off he went to munch some cabbages（吃了些卷心菜） he had noticed in a nearby field. But the heavy meal and the hot sun made his eyelids（眼皮） droop. With a careless glance at the tortoise, now halfway along the course, he decided to have another snooze before flashing past the winning post（终点）. And smiling at the thought of the look on the tortoise’s face when it saw the hare speed by, he fell fast asleep and was soon snoring（打鼾） happily. The sun started to sink, below the horizon（地平线）, and the tortoise, who had been plodding（沉重的） towards the winning post since morning, was scarcely a yard from the finish.

At that very point, the hare woke with a jolt [dʒolt] 惊醒. He could see the tortoise a speck（小点） in the distance and away he dashed（冲出去）. He leapt [lɛpt]跳 and bounded at a great rate, his tongue lolling, and gasping for breath（上气不接下气）. Just a little more and he’d be first at the finish. But the hare’s last leap was just too late, for the tortoise had beaten him to the winning post. Poor hare! Tired and in disgrace（耻辱）, he slumped down beside the tortoise who was silently smiling at him.

“Slowly does it every time!” he said.

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青楼买醉

听说了这个「The Tortoise and the Hare」，小时候就被这个故事逗笑了，兔子那么粗心大意真的输了啊。

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权诈

「龟兔赛跑」，这名字就听起来可爱极了。

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