Water Spills Across the Table Edge - 適合初級的英文短篇故事，含中譯與發音

Two bowls stood ten inches apart on the patio table.

Colette slid the blue one closer to the tap.

She set a small pot in a basin.

Xander held a bucket under the basin.

"I can get a towel," Xander said.

She opened the tap, and a thin arc hit a flexible straw.

The arc pushed the straw sideways, and it sprayed left.

The spray dashed into a bowl of cold ash.

Gray paste slid across a long scratch in the table.

It reached the rim, then dripped on the tile.

A soft tap echoed under the bench.

Near the splash, a tea service sat on a tray.

Colette pulled the tray back from the wet path.

Water still ran from the straw and the rim.

She dropped a sponge to block the stream.

She also turned the tap a quarter, and the arc shrank.

The flow bent down into the bucket in Xander's hands.

He held still, and his eyes stayed wide.

He said, "It goes in now."

At the sponge's edge, one thin drop kept forming.

兩個碗在露台桌上相隔十英寸擺著。

Colette 把藍色的那個滑到水龍頭旁邊。

她把一個小花盆放進洗盆裡。

Xander 把一個水桶舉在洗盆下方。

「我去拿條毛巾。」Xander 說。

她打開水龍頭，一道細弧打在一根有彈性的吸管上。

那道水弧把吸管推到一邊，然後向左噴灑。

水花衝進一碗冷卻的灰燼。

灰色的糊沿著桌上的一道長刮痕滑動。

它到了邊緣，然後滴到地磚上。

長凳下傳來輕微的滴答回音。

濺水旁邊，一組茶具放在托盤上。

Colette 把托盤從那一片濕的地方拉了回來。

水還在從吸管和邊緣流下。

她放下一塊海綿來阻擋水流。

她也把水龍頭轉了四分之一圈，水弧縮小了。

水流往下彎進 Xander 手裡的水桶。

他整個人停住，眼睛張得很大。

他說：「現在它流進去了。」

在海綿的邊緣，一滴細水還在形成。