There was once a farmer who lived near a road.
   It was not a busy road, but from time to time, cars passed
the farm.
   Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road.
   This hole was always full of water, and the drivers of the
cars could not see how deep the hole was. They thought it was
probably shallow.
   Then when they drove into the hole, they could not drive
out because it was so deep.
   The farmer did not spend much time working on his
farm. He spent most of it watching the hole.
    When a car drove into it, he pulled the car out with
his tractor and charged the driver a lot of money for
doing this.
    One day, the driver of a car said to him, “You  must

make a lot of moneypulling cars out of this holenight and day.”
  “Oh, no,” the farmer said. “I don’t pull cars out of the hole
at night. At night I fill the hole with water.”

          地上的坑

    路边曾经住着一个农民。
   虽然这并不是繁华路段，但总有车时不时地经过农场。
   农场门前的道路上有个大坑。
   坑里总装满了水，司机们看不清水究竟有多深，他们以为可能很浅。
   但一旦他们驶进大坑就出不来了，因为这坑太深了。
   农民在农场里劳作的时间并不长，因为他大部分时间都在盯着那个坑。
   当有车掉进坑里时，他就用拖拉机把车拉出来，然后要求司机付一大笔
钱。
   一天，一个司机对他说：“你日夜都在这里帮着拉车，挣不少钱了
吧。”
 “不，”农民回答说，“我晚上不拉车，我得往坑里灌水啊。”