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Lucky Mother
幸運的母親
A young mother believed that it was very wrong to waste any food when there were so many hungry people in the world. One evening, she was giving her small daughter her tea before putting her to bed. First she gave her a slice of fresh brown bread and butter, but the child said that she did not want it like that. She asked for some jam on her bread as well.
一位年輕的母親認為，世界上還有許多受饑餓的人，所以浪費食物是不對的。有天晚上，她給女兒吃宵夜，過后就打發她上床睡覺。她先給她一片新鮮的黑黃油面包，但孩子說她不喜歡這樣吃。她還想在面包上涂一些果醬。
Her mother looked at her for a few seconds and then said, "When I was a small girl like you, Lucy, I was always given either bread and butter, or bread and jam, but never bread with butter and jam.
母親看了女兒幾秒鐘，然后說道，"露茜，我跟你一樣大的時候，總是吃黃油面包，或者果醬面包，從來沒有吃過黃油果醬面包。"
Lucy looked at her mother for a few moments with pity in her eyes and then said to her kindly, "Aren't you pleased that you've come to live with us now?"
露茜看了母親一會兒，眼中露出憐憫的神情，然后她柔聲說："您現在能跟我們生活在一起難道不感到高興嗎？"
