英语翻译

英语翻译
A
A French girl came to LOndon to study English.She lived at her English friend's home.She worked hard at her lessons.Every morning she often did some reading by the window before she went to class.
Her friend,Jenny,liked to keep birds.Every day,early in the morning she took her birds out of the room.Sometimes she hung(悬挂)her bird cage on a tree in her garden or sometimes on her window upstairs.
One morning when she took out her bird cage and tried to hang it on the window upstairs,the cage suddenly fell off her hand.She couldn't catch it.So she shouted,"Look out!"As soon as she heard the shout,the French girl put her head out of the window and tried to look at what was happening.What happened?The cage was just in time to hit her on the head!
From then on the French girl knew what the English"Look out"really meant.
B
Once there was something wrong with a machine in a factory.The workers could do nothing but turn to a German engineer for help,who drew a line on it and then said,"Take off the part where the line is change it for a new one"The machine,with a new part on,began running well again.The engineer then asked for $30,000 for what he had done.The following were what he wrote on a bill,"The new part only costs one dollar,and knowing where the problem with the machine is costs $29,999."
One dollar for changing a new part sounds reasonable,but the $29,999 is exactly the value of wisdom and knowledge.
C
Once there was a man who had two children,a boy and a girl.The boy was good-looking,but the girl was not.
One day they found a mirror and for the first time,they saw what they looked like.The boy was very pleased.He said to his sister,"How handsome I am!Look much nicer than you!"The girl did not like what he said.She gave her brother a push and said,"Go away!"
Their father saw what was happening and said to the boy,"You must always be as good as you look."
And to the girl he said,"My dear,if you help everyoe and are kind to everyong,you will be loved.Our looks don't mean anything."
D
English today is very different from the English spoken long,long ago.By the 12th century,the language had already changed very much.People then could not read writings from the year 700.The history of English has three parts—"Old English"(before the year 1150),"Middle English"(1150 to 1500)and "Modern English"(up till now).
The biggest difference between Old,Middle and Modren English is in vocabulary.Gram—mar has not changed greatly,but thousands of new words have come into the language.Many of these are from French.
Another important change is pronunciation.It has changed so much that there are almost no words said the same way today as in Old English.