标题：美国语文第四册 第109期：中国故事一则（01） 

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Two young, near-sighted fellows, Chang and Ching,

常和庆是两个年轻的近视眼，

Over their chopsticks idly chattering,

饭桌上闲谈时，

Fell to disputing which could see the best;

争执起谁的眼力好，

At last, they agreed to put it to the test.

最后他们决定来较量；

Said Chang,A marble tablet, so I hear,

常说，在大理石板，我听到，

Is placed upon the Bo-hee temple near,

附近有个武夷庙，

With an inscription on it.

碑上刻着碑文，

Let us go And read it (since you boast your optics so),

我们去看看，碑文（既然你吹嘘你的眼力好），

Standing together at a certain place

站在石碑前面一定距离，

In front, where we the letters just may trace;

刚好看见上面文字的地方，

Then he who quickest reads the inscription there,

谁最快读出碑上的文字，

The palm for keenest eyes henceforth shall bear.

谁的视力就最好。

"Agreed," said Ching, but let us try it soon:

庆说，同意，我们尽快比，

Suppose we say tomorrow afternoon.

明天下午怎么样？

"Nay, not so soon," said Chang;

常说，不用这么早，我还有

I'm bound to go tomorrow a day's ride from Hoang-Ho,

一天的行程，骑马从黄河出发，

And sha'n't be ready till the following day:

后天才能回来，

At ten A. M., on Thursday, let us say.

周四上午十点再较量吧。

So't was arranged; but Ching was wide-awake:

这样决定了，庆睡不着觉：

Time by the forelock he resolved to take;

天刚蒙蒙亮他就出发了；

And to the temple went at once, and read,

到了庙前看石碑上写着，

Upon the tablet, To the illustrious dead, The chief of mandarins, the great Goh-Bang.

这里埋葬着杰出的满洲首领，伟大的国邦。

Scarce had he gone when stealthily came Chang,

他刚刚离开常就偷偷溜来，

Who read the same; but peering closer,

他也看到了同样的碑文，可他更仔细，

he spied in a corner what Ching failed to see—The words,

发现碑角上写着——这是庆没看到的。

This tablet is erected here by those to whom the great Goh-Bang was dear.

这个石碑是敬爱国邦的人所立。

 
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