Think Again

Think again. Written by Geraldine McCochran. Illustrated by B. Willie.

再想想哦。 作者：杰拉尔丁·麦科克伦 绘者：B·威利

1. This will never do When Maker made the animals, he made a few mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. For instance, First squirrel was as big as a bull. First autumn came along and squirrel began to gather food for the winter. She took melons and pumpkins and coconuts. She took breadfruit and marrows. In fact, she stripped the fields and woods quite bare.

1. 这可不行 创世主创造动物的时候，犯了几个小错误。谁都会犯错呀，比如说： 第一只松鼠长得和公牛一样大。第一个秋天到了，松鼠开始囤 过冬的食物。她抱走了甜瓜、南瓜、椰子，还拿了面包果和西葫芦。 到最后，她把田野和树林都搜刮得光秃秃的。

And when Squirrel looked for somewhere to store the food, there was no tree big enough to hold her winter larder. This will never do, said Maker. You'll leave nothing for my other animals to eat. I shall have to think again about you. So he tapped Squirrel on the back and down she shrank. To a Squirrel -ish sort of size.

等松鼠找地方存食物的时候，发现没有一棵树够大 能放下她的冬季储备粮。 这可不行，创世主说。 你把吃的都拿走了，我其他动物吃什么呀。 我得重新想想怎么安排你才行。 于是他轻轻拍了拍松鼠的背，松鼠就缩小了。 缩到了正常松鼠差不多的大小。

First, Beaver Two was huge, as big as a mammoth. When first autumn came along, she chewed down a whole forest of trees to build herself a dam. And that dam was so big that it choked three rivers, and the rivers all spilled over. Flood water covered the land from west to east and from north to south. It washed squirrels' winter larder out of its hiding place and wetted makers' feet.

接下来，第二号初代海狸也大得吓人，和猛犸象一样大。 第一个秋天到了，她咬倒了一整片森林的树，给自己建 水坝。 那座水坝太大了，堵住了三条河，河水都漫了出来。 洪水从西到东、从北到南，淹没了整片大地。 它把松鼠藏的过冬粮冲了出来，还弄湿了创世主的脚。

This will never do, said Maker. You and your dams will drown all the other animals I have made. I shall have to think again about you. So he tapped Beaver on the back, and down she shrank to a Beaver -ish sort of size. Then there was Ant. Well, she was not so much Ant as Jye Ant, with eyes like golf balls and jaws like a digger. There was not a log of wood or prickly cactus anywhere on earth that did not crumple flat under her.

这可不行，创世主说。 你和你的水坝会淹死我创造的所有其他动物的。 我得重新想想怎么安排你才行。 于是他轻轻拍了拍海狸的背，海狸就缩到了正常海狸差不多的大小。 接下来是蚂蚁。 哎呀，与其说她是蚂蚁，不如说是巨型蚂蚁，眼睛像高尔夫球，下巴像挖掘机。 世上不管是圆木还是带刺的仙人掌，只要被她踩过，全都扁得像纸片。

This will never do, said Maker. You would build ant hills taller than my mountains. Also, you would frighten the squeal out of Pig and the pips out of the pomegranates. You even frighten me. I shall have to think again about you. So he shrank the ant down to an ant -ish sort of size, which pleased her because she and her friends were party animals and liked to go about in a mob.

这可不行，创世主说。 你会造出比我造的山还高的蚁穴的。 再说，你会把小猪吓得尖叫，把石榴籽都吓掉出来的。 连我都要被你吓到了。 我得重新想想怎么安排你才行。 于是他把蚂蚁缩小，缩到了正常蚂蚁差不多的大小， 蚂蚁可开心了，因为她和朋友们都是爱热闹的小家伙 就喜欢一大群凑在一起玩。