One day Susan Lee was walking along the street when she
saw her friend Lisa Carter.
  She had not seen her old friend for some time so she said,
“We’ve got lots to talk about. Let’s have some tea and cake in
that café.”
  She pointed to a nearby café.
  Lisa agreed, so the two friends went into the café.
  Susan ordered. “We’ll have two pieces of cake,” she said,
“and a pot of tea.”
  The waitress wrote down their order and went away.

  She soon returned with the cake and the pot of tea.
  Susan saw immediately that one piece of cake was a little
bigger than the other.
  However, she was well-mannered so she picked up the
plate and offered it to Lisa.
  “Have a piece of cake, Lisa,” she said.
  “Thank you,” Lisa said. “But after you.”
  “No, no,” Susan said. “After you, please.”
  “Very well,” Lisa said and she took the bigger one.
  Susan was angry. “You’ve taken the bigger piece of cake,”
she said. “That was very rude.”
  “Not at all,” Lisa replied. “Tell me, if you had taken the cake
before me, which cake would you have taken?”
  “The smaller one, of course,” Susan said.
  “Exactly. Well, you’ve got the smaller one, so what are you
complaining about?”

           没什么可抱怨的
  一天，苏珊在街上碰见了她的朋友丽莎。
  她俩有很长时间没见面了，因此她说：“我们要好好聊聊。这样吧，我
们去那家咖啡店，要壶茶和点心怎么样？”
  她指着最近的一家咖啡店。
  丽莎表示赞同，然后两人就进了那家咖啡店。
  苏珊点了一壶茶和两块蛋糕。
  服务员记下菜单，转身离去。
  不久蛋糕和茶水就端上来了。
  苏珊立刻注意到有一块蛋糕比另一块大一点。
  可她却很有礼貌地把盘子端起来递给了丽莎。
  “吃蛋糕吧，丽莎。”她说。
  “谢谢，” 丽莎说，“你先来吧。”
  “不，不，不，” 苏珊说，“还是你先来吧。”
  丽莎说：“那好吧。”就把大蛋糕拿到自己盘子里了。
  苏珊很生气。“你把大蛋糕拿走了，”她说，“那是很不礼貌的。”
  “不是的，” 丽莎回答道，“听我说，如果我让你先拿蛋糕，你拿哪
块？”
  “当然是小的了。” 苏珊说。
  “对呀。你既然选择拿小的，那你还抱怨什么呢？”