中英文幽默故事：盪鞦韆的教授，其實每個成人心中都住著個孩子

一天早晨太陽還沒升起，瓊斯先生就早早醒來了。這是一個美好的早晨，他走到窗前向外眺望。他驚奇地看見一位穿戴整齊的中年教授正從城區那邊走了過來，他就在瓊斯先生門前這條路的那一頭的一所大學工作。他一頭花白頭髮，戴著厚厚的眼鏡，拿著一把傘、一份報紙和一個皮包。瓊斯想，他一定是乘夜班車到的，不打算乘計程車而是步行到學校去。

Mr Jones woke early one morning ， before the sun had risen 。 It was a beautiful morning ， so he went to the window and looked out 。 He was surprised to see a neatly dressed ， middle-aged professor ， who worked in the university just up the road from Mr Jone‘s house ，coming from the direction of the town 。

He had grey hair and thick glasses ， and was carrying an umbrella ， a morning newspaper and a bag 。 Mr Jones thought that he must have arrived by the night train and decided to walk to the university instead of taking a taxi 。

瓊斯家的花園裡有棵大樹，孩子們在一個樹杈上繫了一根繩子，這樣他們就能夠用它來盪鞦韆了。

Mr Jones had a big tree in his garden ， and the children had tied a long rope to one of its branches ， so that they could swing on it 。

瓊斯先生驚奇地看見，這位教授見到繩子時就停了下來，並且還小心地向道路兩頭看了看。當他沒有看見有人時，他就走進了花園（沒有柵欄），把傘、報紙、皮包和帽子整齊地放在草地上，然後抓住繩子。他使勁地拉了拉繩子，看它是否結實，能否經得住他的體重，然後儘快地跑，並抓住繩子在空中蕩了起來，花白的頭髮飄在他的臉上，他前後來回地蕩著，當他覺得繩子蕩得太慢時，他會偶爾在草地上再跑上幾步。

（Mr Jones was surprised to see the professor stop when he saw the rope ， and look carefully up and down the road 。 When he saw that there was nobody in sight ， he stepped into the garden （there was no fence ）， put his umbrella ， newspaper ， bag and hat neatly on the grass and took hold of the rope 。

He pulled it hard to see whether it was strong enough to take his weight ， then ran as he could and swung into the air on the end of the rope ， his grey hair blowing all around his face 。 Backwards and forwards he swung ， accasionally taking a few more running steps on the grass when the rope began to swing too slowly for him 。）

最後，教授停了下來，他正了正領帶，仔細地梳了梳頭髮，帶上帽子，拿起傘、報紙和皮包，繼續向那所大學走去，看上去和人們心目中的教授該有的形象一樣，從從容容、舉止得體、令人尊敬。

（At last the professor stopped ， straightened his tie ， combed his hair carefully ， put on his hat ，picked up his unbrella ， newspaper and bag ， and correct and respectable as one would expect a professor to be 。）

其實我們每個人心中都住著個孩子。現實生活中壓力太大，把我們真實的內心包裹的嚴嚴實實。有時候我們需要釋放，撕掉自己“偽裝”的面具，不如像個孩子一樣，去嘗試下孩子的遊戲，或者和孩子一起感受下童年時光，感受生命的快樂。