Too Much Talking

Too Much Talking (based on a Chinese folk tale) Once there was a boy who could not stop talking. All day long, he talked and talked. He had no friends. Why?Because he always talked and never listened. Yak, yak, yak…words came from the boy's mouth all day long. The boy asked his father, " Why don't I have any friends?" He wanted so much to have friends.

太多话 (根据中国民间故事改编)从前，有个男孩不停地说话，一说一整天。他没有朋友。为什么? 因为他总是说，从来不听。牦牛,牦牛,牦牛……话整天都是从那男孩嘴里说出来的。 男孩问他的父亲:“为什么我没有朋友?”他非常想有朋友。

His father said, " Listen, my son. Do you hear the frogs in the pond?They never stop croaking. They croak all day. They croak all night. But does anyone really hear them?" The boy agreed that nobody listened to the frogs when they croaked. “ Early tomorrow morning, the rooster will crow, " said the father. " He crows only at this time. But everyone listens to him. He wakes us all up from our sleep. ” The boy understood. From then on, he would be like the rooster—a boy of few words.

他父亲说:“儿子，听着。你听到池塘里青蛙的声音了吗?它们从来没有停止过嘎嘎叫。它们整天呱呱叫。 它们整晚都在嘎嘎叫。但有人真的听他们吗?”男孩同意没有人听青蛙呱呱叫。 “明天一早，公鸡就要叫了，”父亲说。“他只在这个时候叫。但是每个人都听他的。他把我们从睡梦中叫醒。 男孩明白了。从那以后，他就像公鸡一样，言简意赅。