英语小达人每天10分钟 172 That's why

[00:00.01]27 That's why 27 原来如此 [00:06.14]Jimmy lived in a small town with a population of only several thousand. 吉米住在一个人口只有几千人的小城。 [00:11.27]He started painting when he was three years old. 他三岁开始画画， [00:14.46]And when he was five, he was already very good at it. 五岁时已经画得很好了。 [00:18.59]He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, such as a loaf of bread, 他画了很多美丽而有趣的画，比如面包条， [00:24.06]candies, butterflied, zebras and something else that he liked. 糖果，蝴蝶，斑马以及其他一些他喜欢的东西。 [00:31.52]News of his intelligence spread swifly and people paid a lot of money for them. 他的天才很快便传开了，人们出高价购买。 [00:38.02]They said, "This boy is going to be extraordinary when he's a little older 他们说：“这个孩子长大一点肯定会非同一般， [00:43.22]and then we are going to sell these pictures for a lot of money". 我们可以靠这些画大赚一笔。” [00:48.36]Jim's picture were different from other people's. 吉米的画与众不同， [00:51.29]Because he never painted on all of the paper. 因为他从来不在整张壁纸上作画。 [00:54.17]He painted on half of it and the other half is always empty. 他只画纸的一半，而另一半他总空着。 [01:00.56]"That's very clever", everyone said,"nobody else does that". “这是非常聪明的做法!”大家都说，“从来没有人这么做过。” [01:06.22]One day,in Jim's own studio, somebody bought one of Jim's oil paintings and then said to the bright boy, 有一天，在吉米的个人画室里，一个人买了吉米的一张油画，然后问这个聪明的孩子： [01:14.31]"please, tell me this Jim,why do you painted on the bottom half of your pictures but not on the top half". “请告诉我一件事，吉米，你为什么总是在纸的下半部分画，却不在纸的上半部分画?” [01:24.08]"Because I'm short", Jim said,"and my brushes don't reach very hign". “因为我个头小，”吉米说，“画笔够不着上面。”

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