The Man and the Monkey

男人和猴子

While flying over a jungle, a wealthy executive's private plane crashed. Some of the crew were hurt, so the pilot decided to stay with them and wait for help. The arrogant executive, though, didn't care about the welfare of the pilot and crew. Rather, he thought he could walk out of the jungle and find a town to stay in. 一位富有的经理的私人飞机在丛林上空飞行时坠毁了。一些机组人员受了伤，所以飞行员决定留下来等待救援。然而，这位傲慢的高管并不关心飞行员和机组人员的死活。相反，他认为他可以走出丛林，找到一个可以落脚的小镇。

He followed a trail through a canyon and along a creek. The jungle was actually very stunning. If the arrogant executive had stopped to look around, he might have perceived the jungle's beauty. But he was in a nasty mood and had no care for the aesthetic value of the jungle. He continued to walk up the steep incline of the jungle's hills.

他沿着一条小径穿过峡谷，沿着一条小溪走。丛林实际上非常迷人。如果这位傲慢的高管停下来环顾四周，他可能已经看到了丛林的美丽。但他的心情很糟糕，对丛林的美毫不在意。他继续沿着丛林小山的陡坡往上走。

Soon, he was lost. Several days passed, and fatigue and hunger weakened him. He was very tired and afraid.

不久，他就迷路了。几天过去了，疲劳和饥饿使他虚弱不堪。他又累又害怕。

Just then, a monkey came out of the trees. It was carrying a twig covered in honey. It walked up to a mound where termites lived. He then used the twig like a drill to make a hole in the mound. Then very carefully, it removed the twig from the hole. The sticky twig was covered with termites.

就在那时，一只猴子从树上出来了。它拿着一根沾满蜂蜜的小树枝，走到一个白蚁居住的土堆前，用树枝像钻头一样在土堆上钻了一个洞。然后，它非常小心地把树枝从洞里拔了出来。黏糊糊的树枝上爬满了白蚁。

Instead of eating the bugs, the monkey offered them to the executive, but he didn't want what the monkey offered. He shouted at the monkey, "Get away from me, you stupid primate!"

猴子没有吃虫子，而是把虫子给了经理，但他不想要猴子给的东西。他对猴子喊道:“离我远点，你这个愚蠢的灵长类动物!”

The executive's stereotype of the monkey was wrong. The monkey was not stupid. It knew how to find food, whereas the executive did not. He refused the help of the monkey, thereby leaving himself to starve.

这位高管对猴子的刻板印象是错误的。猴子并不笨。它知道如何找到食物，而这位高管却不知道。他拒绝猴子的帮助，结果使自己挨饿。

When the executive was finally found, he was very skinny and sick. He had not eaten for a very long time. Because he held a bias against the primitive ways of the monkey, he had gone hungry and almost died. The executive didn't understand that it was his arrogant attitude that had caused all of his problems.

当那位经理最终被找到时，他已经瘦得皮包骨头，身体虚弱。他已经很长时间没有吃东西了。因为他对猴子的原始生活方式有偏见，差点就饿死了。这位主管不明白是他傲慢的态度导致了他所有的问题。

核心单词表

aesthetic adj. 美学的

arrogant adj. 自大的

bias n. 偏爱

canyon n. 峡谷

creek n. 小溪

drill n. 钻孔机

executive n. 主管

fatigue n. 疲劳

incline n. 斜坡

nasty adj. 恶心的

perceive v. 察觉

primate n. 灵长目动物(包括人、猴子等)

primitive adj. 原始的

stereotype n. 陈腔滥调

sticky adj. 粘的

termite n. 白蚁

thereby adv. 从而

trail n. (荒野)小路

twig n. 小枝

welfare n. 福利

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