讨厌猫的钱阿姨
The neighbour who hates cats
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钱阿姨住在三号楼二楼。小区里谁都知道，她最讨厌豆腐。
“那只猫？别跟我说那只猫！它一来，我就打喷嚏。”说完，她就打喷嚏了。
乐乐看了看厨房。桌子上有一条做好的小鱼，可是什么都没放。旁边还有一个小碗，碗上画着一只白猫。
“阿姨，你做鱼不放盐吗？”
“我……我在减肥。”
爷爷看着那个小碗，没说话。她也不说话了。过了一会儿，她坐了下来。
“我小时候，家里有三只猫。后来我一碰猫就打喷嚏，不能养了。”
原来，每天中午，她都在楼下偷偷给豆腐吃一条小鱼。她叫它“宝贝”。
乐乐问：“那你为什么说讨厌它？”
“我说了它三年坏话，现在怎么能说我喜欢它？”
爷爷问：“星期天中午，宝贝来了吗？”
“来了。可是吃得很慢，吃完就躺在太阳下面，躺了很久。”
钱阿姨又说：“对了，你们去问问一楼的阳阳。他家没有猫，可是我看见他买了一大箱猫粮！”
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 条 | tiáo | strip; slip (as in 纸条) |
| 旁边 | pángbiān | beside; next to; nearby |
| 画 | huà | to draw; to paint; painting; picture |
| 鱼 | yú | fish |
| 一会儿 | yíhuìr | a moment; a while |
| 小时候 | xiǎoshíhou | in one's childhood; when one was little |
| 慢 | màn | slow; to slow down |
| 下面 | xiàmiàn | next; following |
| 阿姨 | āyí | aunt (term of address for a woman of one's mother's generation) |
| 小区 | xiǎoqū | residential compound; housing estate |
| 碗 | wǎn | bowl |
| 后来 | hòulái | afterwards; later |
English (for the teacher)
Auntie Qian lived on the second floor of Building 3. Everyone in the compound knew she hated Tofu more than anything.
“That cat? Don’t talk to me about that cat! The moment it turns up, I start sneezing.” And with that, she sneezed.
Lele glanced into the kitchen. On the table was a small cooked fish, with nothing on it at all. Next to it sat a little bowl with a white cat painted on it.
“Auntie, don’t you put salt on your fish?”
“I… I’m on a diet.”
Grandpa looked at the little bowl and said nothing. She went quiet too. After a while, she sat down.
“When I was little, we had three cats at home. Later, I started sneezing whenever I touched a cat, so I couldn’t keep one.”
So that was it: every day at noon, she secretly fed Tofu a small fish downstairs. She called it “Sweetie”.
Lele asked, “Then why do you say you hate it?”
“I’ve been badmouthing it for three years. How can I say I like it now?”
Grandpa asked, “On Sunday at noon, did Sweetie come?”
“It came. But it ate very slowly, and afterwards it lay in the sun for a long time.”
Then Auntie Qian added, “Oh, and go and ask Yangyang on the ground floor. He hasn’t got a cat, but I saw him buy a huge box of cat food!”