The Rolling Flask and the Pebble Ramp - 適合初級的英文短篇故事，含中譯與發音

Zeke swung his small flask beside the path.

Water inside tapped the metal walls.

Warm light fell across the stone fountain.

He knelt and aimed the flask at the thin stream.

A loose rock slipped and nudged his fingers.

The flask rolled away and dropped into a low drain.

Tin rang against hidden boards below the grate.

June heard the sound and hurried over.

"Hold on, I can reach," she said.

She slid a stick through the bars.

The stick caught nothing and scraped the wood.

Together they gathered small pebbles near the curb.

They poured them down the gap and made a short ramp.

Zeke tipped another stone and the ramp grew longer.

The flask rolled back along the ramp and clinked at his boots.

A flat coin followed the metal bottle onto the road.

One question stayed in both heads: where was the cap?

The loss of the cap turned their talk toward fixes.

The topic changed again when June lifted the bright coin.

Cool wind brushed the stone fountain.

Zeke tucked the coin and walked home.

齊克把小水瓶在小徑旁甩動。

瓶中的水敲著金屬壁。

溫暖的光落在石製噴泉上。

他跪下，把水瓶對準細細的水流。

一顆鬆動的石頭滑動，碰到他的手指。

水瓶滾走，掉進低矮的排水孔。

錫聲在格柵下的木板間迴盪。

茱恩聽到聲音快步過來。

「等等，我伸得到，」她說。

她把一根木棍伸進鐵欄。

木棍勾不到東西，只刮到木頭。

他們一起在路邊收集小石子。

他們把石子倒進縫隙，做成短斜坡。

齊克又推下一塊石頭，斜坡更長了。

水瓶順著斜坡滾回來，碰到他的鞋。

一枚扁平的硬幣跟著金屬瓶落到路面。

兩人心中都留下同一個疑問：瓶蓋在哪？

失去瓶蓋讓他們開始想辦法修補。

當茱恩撿起亮亮的硬幣，話題再次轉向它。

涼風拂過石噴泉。

齊克把硬幣收好，踏上回家的路。