A Dish¹ Washer

Some people have dogs or cats as pets. One woman in New York keeps a monkey as her pet. This monkey can wash dishes². He washes the dishes for the woman every day. He likes to wash dishes and never breaks a dish. Sometimes he washes the same dishes over and over. If the woman tries to stop him, he then gets angry.

He begins to throw the dishes in all directions³. But this does not happen very often.

The woman's husband⁴ is very happy with the monkey. The husband never needs to help his wife⁵ wash the dishes. The monkey does all this work. The husband says that he cannot understand how anybody⁶, a person⁷ or a monkey, can like to wash dishes so much.

中文译文

洗碗工

有些人的宠物是猫或狗。纽约的一位妇女养了只猴子当宠物。这只猴子会洗碗。他每天为这个妇女洗碗。他喜欢洗并且从未打破过一个碗碟。有时他会一遍遍地清洗同一个碗。如果这个妇女试图阻止，猴子就会发脾气，并开始朝四面八方扔碗碟。但这种情况不常发生。

女人的丈夫非常满意这只猴子。他从不需要帮自己的妻子洗碗。猴子包办了这些活。这个丈夫说他无法理解，不管是谁，人还是猴子，怎么会如此喜欢洗碗呢。

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