One day a lady saw¹ a mouse running² across³ her kitchen floor. She was⁴ very afraid of mouse, so she ran⁵ out of the house, got⁶ into a bus and went to the shops. There she bought a mousetrap（捕鼠器） . The shopkeeper⁸ said⁹ to her, "Put some cheese in it and you will soon catch that mouse."

The lady went home with her mousetrap, but when she looked in her cupboard, she could¹⁰ not find any cheese in it. She did¹¹ not want to go back to the shop, because it was very late, so she cut a picture of some cheese out of a magazine¹² and put that in the trap⁷.

Surprisingly, the picture of the cheese was quite successful¹³! When the lady came¹⁴ down to the kitchen the next morning she found¹⁵ a picture of a mouse in the trap beside the picture of the cheese!

有一天某位女士看到一只老鼠在自家的厨房地板上窜过。她很害怕老鼠，所以她冲出屋子，搭上了公共汽车直奔商店。在那儿，她买了一只老鼠夹。店主告诉她："放点奶酪在里面，很快你就会逮住那只老鼠的。"
 
这位女士带着鼠夹回到家里，但她没有在碗橱里找到奶酪。她不想再回到商店里去，因为已经很晚了。于是，她就从一份杂志中剪下一幅奶酪的图片放进了夹子。

令人称奇的是，这画有奶酪的图片竟然奏效了!第二天早上，这位女士下楼到厨房时，发现鼠夹里奶酪图片旁有一张画有老鼠的图片。