Coco was just having a normal but boring day in the garden. Her owner wastaking her for a walk when she ran away and fell into a fountain1.

可可剛剛在花園里度過了普通但無聊的一天。它的主人帶它散步時它逃跑了，然后掉進了噴泉里。

Why did she run？ Because she just wanted to and just did it for fun. Then shemet another dog， Bella. They wanted to be friends so they wouldn’t have suchboring days. So they became friends and had fun playing every day in the park，near the fountain.

它為什么要跑呢？因為它只是想跑，也為了好玩。然后它遇到了另一只狗，貝拉。它們想交個朋友，這樣它們就不會過這么無聊的日子了。于是它們成了朋友，每天都在公園噴泉附近玩耍。

One night， after having fun， their owners went to bed， and then the dogs saw athief2 in the neighbor’s yard. So they ran after him. They ran， and ran， and ranuntil a bridge showed up. It gave a shortcut3 to go to the other side. But the thiefwent through the bushes， because he knew that the bridge wasn’t stable4 enough.

一天晚上，在開心玩耍之后，小狗們的主人上床睡覺了，然后它們在鄰居的院子里看見了一個小偷。于是它們追著他跑。它們追啊，追啊追，直到眼前出現(xiàn)了一座橋。這座橋提供了一條通往對面的捷徑。小偷卻從灌木叢穿行而過，因為他知道這座橋不夠穩(wěn)固。

But， the dogs didn’t know that first. When Coco stepped on the bridge， sheunderstood it wasn’t stable enough to go on. The bridge was shaking. Coco thenrecognized5 that it wasn’t wise6 to go on there. She held her hand out and tried toreach Bella.

然而小狗們事先并不知道。當可可踏上橋面時，它就知道這座橋不夠穩(wěn)，無法繼續(xù)前行。橋搖晃起來，可可意識到繼續(xù)往前走是不明智的。它伸出爪子，試圖夠到貝拉。

“Woof， woof！ Help！ Help！ ”Coco shouted.

“汪！汪！救命?。【让。　笨煽珊暗?。

“Hang on！ Hang on！ ”Bella shouted back and pulled Coco as hard as shecould. And， finally！ Coco got dragged7 back to the soft， tall grass.

“堅持??！堅持?。　必惱舐暬貞?yīng)著，用盡全力拉著可可。終于，可可被拽回了柔軟茂密的草地。

So you see， birds of a feather8 flock9 together. Then the dogs went on runningafter the thief in another way. At last， they caught up with the thief beside a road.The neighbor arrived with the police after several minutes. The dogs got theirreward10 and went home happily.

所以你看，物以類聚，人以群分。接下來小狗們繼續(xù)從另一條路追趕小偷。最后，它們在路邊追上了那個小偷。幾分鐘后，它們的鄰居帶著警察趕到了。小狗們得到了獎勵，然后高高興興地回家了。

▏Notes

1. fountain 噴泉

2. thief 賊，小偷

3. shortcut 近路，捷徑

4. stable 穩(wěn)定的，牢固的

5. recognize 意識到

6. wise 行為或決定，明智的，高明的

7. drag 拖，拽

8. feather 羽毛

9. flock 群集，蜂擁

10. reward 獎勵