The Day It Rained Tortillas

The Day It Rained Tortillas, retold by Betty Yee. Illustrated by Carlos Arbat. Focus Question. What is the problem in the story, and how does the woodcutter's wife solve it?

《下玉米饼的那天》，贝蒂·伊改编，卡洛斯·阿巴特绘。 核心问题：这个故事里出现了什么问题？樵夫的妻子是怎么解决的？

A long time ago, a woodcutter lived in New Mexico. He loved to talk and tell tall tales. He talked to his wife. He talked to his neighbors. He talked to everyone in town. When he ran out of people to talk to, he talked to his goat and mule. One day, the woodcutter found three bags of gold in the forest and took them home. His wife quickly figured out that so much gold could only belong to robbers. She worried that they would find her husband.

很久以前，有个樵夫住在新墨西哥州。 他特别爱说话，还爱吹牛皮。 他跟妻子说， 跟邻居说。 镇上每个人他都聊个遍。 没人可聊的时候，他就对着自家的山羊和骡子说话。 有一天，樵夫在森林里捡到了三袋金子，把它们带回了家。 他妻子立刻反应过来，这么多金子肯定是强盗的。 她很担心强盗会找上她丈夫。

Don't worry, the woodcutter said, grinning. I only told the baker, the butcher, the fish seller, the candlestick maker, and her daughter, he added. Aye, you talk too much. Now the robbers will know we're the ones who have their gold, his wife wailed. We really need that gold to fix our broken roof, she added. So she came up with a plan.

“别担心呀，”樵夫咧嘴笑着说。 “我只告诉了面包师、屠夫、卖鱼的，还有做烛台的工匠和她女儿而已。”他补充道。 “哎呀，你话太多了！” “现在强盗肯定会知道金子是被我们拿走的，”他妻子哭丧着脸说。 “我们可太需要这笔金子来修我们破掉的屋顶了。”她补充道。 于是她想到了一个主意。

First, she told the woodcutter to hurry into town and buy one hundred pounds of flour. Meanwhile, she buried the coins in the backyard. When he returned, she told him the gold disappeared. She explained that she had left the gold on the porch while thinking of a good place to stash it. Someone must have snatched it then.

首先，她让樵夫赶紧去镇上买一百磅面粉回来。 与此同时，她把金币都埋到了后院。 等樵夫回来，她告诉他金子不见了。 她解释说，刚才她正想找个好地方藏金子，就先把金子放在门廊上了。 肯定是那个时候被人偷走了。

After her husband went to bed, she cooked pile after pile of tortillas. Then she threw them all around the house. Tortillas covered the floors, were spread on the kitchen table, and hung from the curtains.

等丈夫上床睡觉后，她烙了一堆又一堆的玉米饼。 然后她把玉米饼扔得满屋都是。 地板上铺满了玉米饼，餐桌上也放着，连窗帘上都挂着。

In the morning, the woodcutter awoke to see tortillas all over his bed. One even sat on top of his head. His wife yawned, stretched, and then exclaimed, I, it rained tortillas last night. They must have come down through the broken roof. Tortillas, how can that be? The woodcutter asked.

早上，樵夫一醒就看到床上全是玉米饼。 甚至还有一块落在了他的头顶上。 他妻子打了个哈欠伸了伸懒腰，然后大叫起来： 天呐，昨天晚上下玉米饼啦！ 它们肯定是从破屋顶掉进来的。 玉米饼？这怎么可能啊？ 樵夫问道。