18、A Dish Washer 洗碗工

Some people have dogs or cats as pets.

有些人的宠物是猫或狗。

One woman in New York keeps a monkey as her pet.

纽约的一位妇女养了只猴子当宠物。

This monkey can wash dishes.

这只猴子会洗碗。

He washes the dishes for the woman every day.

他每天为这个妇女洗碗。

He likes to wash dishes and never breaks a dish.

他喜欢洗并且从未打破过一个碗碟。

Sometimes he washes the same dishes over and over.

有时他会一遍遍地清洗同一个碗。

If the woman tries to stop him, he then gets angry.

如果这个妇女试图阻止，猴子就会发脾气，

He begins to throw the dishes in all directions.

并开始朝四面八方扔碗碟。

But this does not happen very often.

但这种情况不常发生。

The woman's husband is very happy with the monkey.

女人的丈夫非常满意这只猴子。

The husband never needs to help his wife wash the dishes.

他从不需要帮自己的妻子洗碗。

The monkey does all this work.

猴子包办了这些活。

The husband says that he can not understand how anybody, a person or a monkey, can like to wash dishes so much.

这个丈夫说他无法理解，不管是谁，人还是猴子，怎么会如此喜欢洗碗呢。

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