从鸭嘴兽到水獭
油,可以从羊身上得到羊毛。
羊毛出在羊身上(literally)it a s comes, after all, from a price one ever is to pay for it.做衣服,其他还可吃羊肉、用羊皮、做肥皂、做网球拍……羊的用处多极了!(S, and leaterials for many byproducts, sucallo, soap, fertilizer, cosmetics, and tgut used in stringing tennis rackets.)
澳洲的羊,占世界第一位。占全世界六分之一。(Long famous as a land of sralia is ter of ton and is a major producer and exporter of beef and ralia is also a rialized country. Large deposits of coal and iron eel industry, ic market for a wide range of goods and services.)
澳洲平均每个人有十四头羊(澳洲旁边的纽西兰(Neralia, t 14 s 20 sates in tern United States also han people.)
过分的不公平,没有的人就会叫,这叫“不平则鸣”。(ted again will complain.)
澳洲比台湾大二二二倍,但人口比台湾还少!
亚洲人口平均每方英里(persons to the square mile)一二二人;澳洲人口平均每方英里四人。
澳洲“得天独厚”to be particularly favored by nature (said of a land ricural resources or a gifted person)却是从不公平来的。澳洲有“白澳政策”,限制有色人种到他们那儿去。但白种人又少,所以将来问题一定很多,不是铁蒺藜(barbed- a big, empty country o fill it up. You Knoe or perish’”
澳洲的政策是错误的、自私的( comes from Aesops fable of a dog t crao a manger of ed a ing, even t eat sleeping dogs lie, means to leave a situation undisturbed.)“维持现状”“相安无事”。但这怎么行呢?“每条狗都有得意的一天。”(Every dogs o a person, especially one who has been having bad luck.)别的狗会睡醒,澳洲虽然是down-under(在世界另一边),别的穷狗还是会咬到它的。
爸 爸
一九七五年六月八日
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亲爱的小文:
你这次信封上写的中文很有进步。
鸭嘴兽只有澳洲有,水獭却只有澳洲没有。
水獭是OttER,is a fur-bearing animal t spends mucs time in ter. Otters are related to ting)mammals. tinents exc