英語溫馨夜讀I PART2 02 A Trick 惡作劇

[00:00.88]A Trick 惡作劇 [00:04.38]A young man, a student in one of our universities, [00:08.34]was one day taking a walk with a professor, [00:12.70]who was commonly called the students’friend, [00:14.99]from his kindness to those who waited on his instructions. [00:18.39]As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, [00:23.86]which they supposed to belong to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, [00:29.61]and who had nearly finished his day’s work. [00:32.35]The student turned to the professor, saying, [00:35.51]“Let us play the man a trick: we will hide his shoes, [00:39.13]and conceal ourselves behind those bushes, [00:42.19]and wait to see his perplexity when he cannot find them.” [00:45.59]“My young friend,” answered the professor, [00:49.31]“we should never amuse ourselves at the expense of the poor. [00:53.35]But you are rich, and may give yourself a much greater pleasure [00:57.91]by means of the poor man. [00:59.15]Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves [01:03.82]and watch how the discovery affects him.” [01:05.82]The student did so, and they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by. [01:11.95]The poor man soon finished his work, [01:15.15]and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes. [01:19.94]While putting on his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; [01:24.64]but feeling something hard, he stooped down to feel what it was, and found the coin. [01:30.77]Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his countenance. [01:34.71]He gazed upon the coin, turned it round, and looked at it again and again. [01:39.30]He then looked around him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. [01:44.22]He now put the money into his pocket, and proceeded to put on the other shoe; [01:49.04]but his surprise was doubled on finding the other coin. [01:52.65]His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his knees, [01:56.99]looked up to heaven and uttered aloud a fervent thanksgiving, [02:00.86]in which he spoke of his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without bread, [02:05.89]whom the timely bounty, from some unknown hand, would save from perishing. [02:11.03]The student stood there deeply affected, and his eyes filled with tears. [02:16.72]“Now,” said the professor, [02:19.80]“are you not much better pleased than if you had played your intended trick?” [02:24.59]The youth replied, “You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget. [02:29.74]I feel now the truth of those words, which I never understood before: [02:34.34]‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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