(单词翻译:单击)
Passage Ten That's Why!
原来如此！
Jimmy started painting when he was three years old, and when he was five, he was already very good at it. He also got many prizes for his painting.
吉米三岁开始画画，五岁时已经画得相当好了。他还因此获得很多奖。
He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid a lot of money for them.
他画了很多美丽有趣的图画。人们付很多钱买这些画。
They said, "This boy's going to be famous when he's a little older, and then we’re going to sell these pictures for a lot more money."
他们说：“这个孩子大一点后肯定会出名．到时我们可以靠这些画赚更多的钱。”
Jimmy's pictures were different from other people's because he never painted it on all of the paper.
吉米的画不同于他人的画，因为他从来不在整张纸上作画。
He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty.
他只在一半纸上画，另一半总是空的。
"That's very clever," everybody said. "Nobody else does that!"
“这真是个聪明的做法！”大家都说，“没有其他人这么画过。”
They all believed that the boy was a pioneer in painting.
他们都认为这男孩堪称绘画艺术的先锋。
One day, somebody bought one of Jimmy's pictures and then said to him, "Please tell me this, Jimmy. Why do you paint on the bottom half of your pictures, but not on the top half ?"
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画而不在上半部分画呢？”
"Because I'm small," Jimmy said, "and my brushes don't reach very high."
吉米说：“因为我个头小，我的画笔无法够到那么高。”
