buying a hat
a lady went to a hat shop to buy a hat. as she was very fussy, it took her a long time to pick on one. already at the end of his patience the salesman was afraid that she might change her mind again so he tried to flatter her: an excellent choice, madam. you look at least ten years younger with this hat on! to his dismay, the lady took off her hat at once and said: i don't want a hat that makes me look ten years older as soon as i take it off. show me some more hats!
买帽子
一位妇女到一家帽子店买帽子。她很挑剔，用了很长时间才选好了一顶。已经忍耐到极限的售货员害怕她再改变主意，便恭维她：你做了极好的选择，夫人。你戴上这顶帽子看上去起码年轻十岁！但令他沮丧的是，这位女士马上摘下了她的帽子说：我不想要一顶摘下来便使我立刻显得老十岁的帽子。多拿一些帽子给我看看！
not long after an old chinese woman came back to china from her visit to her daughter in the states, she went to a city bank to deposit the us dollars her daughter gave her. at the bank counter, the clerk checked each note carefully to see if the money was real. it made the old lady out of patience.
at last she could not hold any more, uttering. trust me, sir, and trust the money. they are real us dollars. they are directly from america.
它们是从美国直接带来的，一位中国老妇人在美国看望女儿回来不久，到一家市银行存女儿送给她的美元。在银行柜台，银行职员认真检查了每一张钞票，看是否有假。这种做法让老妇人很不耐烦，最后实在忍耐不住说：相信我，先生，也请你相信这些钞票。这都是真正的美元，它们是从美国直接带来的。
she kindled a third match. again shot up the flame； and now she was sitting under a most beautiful christmas tree ,far larger, and far more prettily decked out, than the one she had seen last christmas eve through the glass doors of the rich merchant's house. hundreds of wax-tapers lighted up the green branches, and tiny painted figures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down from the tree upon her. the child stretched out her hands towards them in delight, and in that moment the lights of the match warm quenched； still, however, the christmas candles burned higher and higher， she beheld them beaming like stars in heaven； one of them fell, the lights streaming behind it like a long, fiery tail.
now some one is dying, said the little girl, softly, for she had been told by her old grandmother， the only person who had ever been kind to her, and who was now dead that whenever a star falls an immortal spirit returns to the god who gave it.
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