That's Why!

 

Jimmy started painting¹ when he was² three years old, and when he was five, he was already³ very good at it. He also got⁴ many prizes⁵ for his painting. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid⁶ a lot of money for them They said⁷,“This boy's going⁸ to be famouswhen he's a little older, and then we’re going to sell these pictures for a lot more money.”

 

Jimmy's pictures were different from other people's because he never painted it on all of the paper. He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty.

 

“That's very clever,”everybody said.“Nobody else does that!”They all believed⁹ that the boy was a pioneer¹⁰ in painting.

 

One day, somebody¹¹ bought one of Jimmy's pictures and then said to him,“Please tell me this, Jimmy. Why do you paint on the bottom¹² half of your pictures, but not on the tophalf ?” “Because I'm small,”Jimmy said,“and my brushes don't reach¹³ very high.”

 

【汉语翻译】

 

原来如此！

 

吉米三岁开始画画(start painting)，五岁时已经(already)画得相当好了。他还因此获得很多奖(many prizes)。他画了很多美丽(beautiful)有趣的(interesting)图画(picture)。人们付(pay)很多钱(a lot of money)买这些画。他们说：“这个孩子大一点后肯定会出名(be famous)．到时我们可以靠这些画赚更多的钱。”

 

吉米的画不同于(be different from)他人的画，因为他从来不在整张纸上作画。他只在一半纸上画，另一半总是空的(empty)。

 

“这真是个聪明的(clever)做法！”大家都说，“没有其他人(nobody else)这么画过。”他们都认为这男孩堪称绘画艺术的先锋(pioneer)。

 

有一天，有人买了吉米的画，然后问：“请告诉我，吉米，你为什么总是在纸的下半部分(bottom half)画而不在上半部分(top half)画呢？” 吉米说：“因为我个头小，我的画笔(brush)无法够到(reach)那么高(high)。”

 

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