A nursery school teacher was delivering a school bus full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past。 Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog。 The children started discussing what the dog‘s duties might be。

“They use him to keep crowds back,” said one youngster。
“No,” said another, “he‘s just for good luck。”
A third child concluded。 “No silly, they use the dogs to find the fire hydrant!”
有一天,一位護(hù)理學(xué)校的老師老師正駕駛著坐滿孩子的校車,送他們回家,這時(shí)候,一輛消防車呼嘯而過。在消防車的前座上有一只達(dá)爾馬提亞犬。于是孩子們開始討論這只狗的職責(zé)可能是什么。
“他們用它來讓人們離得遠(yuǎn)一點(diǎn),”一個(gè)小孩說到。
“不,”另一個(gè)說,“它是用來求好運(yùn)的。”
這時(shí)候第三個(gè)小孩說。“別傻了,其實(shí)他們是想用用這狗來找消防栓的。”
生詞:
zoom past:呼嘯而過
fire hydrant:消防栓
那為什么會(huì)有只小狗坐在消防車上呢?
這是因?yàn)檫h(yuǎn)在十八世紀(jì)時(shí)代,馬車用作消防車,投入滅火戰(zhàn)斗。狗是馬的天然朋友,當(dāng)時(shí)的消防隊(duì)員相信,馬有時(shí)看到火災(zāi)會(huì)驚慌失措,而往往是狗能使它們安靜下來。因此,消防協(xié)會(huì)把狗作為自己吉祥物的標(biāo)記就不無道理了。
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