哥伦布英语 第 91 课：Cows 母牛

My friend Jim has a farm. He has a lot of cows and he sells their milk. 我朋友吉姆有个农场。他有很多奶牛，他出售牛奶。

He does not milk the cows by hand: he has an electric milking machine. 他不用手工挤奶，他有电动挤奶机。

He gets up very early every morning, milks the cows with his machine, lets them out into the fields, 他每天早上很早起来，用机器挤牛奶，然后把母牛放到外面的牧场上，

gets the milk ready, puts it in very big cans, washes the milking machine and the buckets, puts the milkcans out in the road, 把牛奶处理好后，把它装进一个很大的奶罐里，然后洗干净挤奶机和奶桶，再把奶罐放到路边，

and then has his breakfast. At about 8 o'lock a big truck comes and collects his milk cans. 然后他吃早饭。大概八点钟的时候，有辆大卡车过来收他的牛奶。

After breakfast, Jim goes to his desk and writes letters and bills and other
things. 吃完早饭后，吉姆走到书桌边写信，写账单，并处理些其他的事情。

When I visited him last year, he said to me, "Do you know, Bill, a farmer has a lot of paperwork now. He is like a clerk in an office."去年我去看他时，他对我说：“你知道吗，比尔，现在一个农夫也有很多文书工作要做，就像是办公室里的职员。”

Jim loves his farm, but he hates paperwork. 吉姆喜欢他的农场，但他不喜欢文书工作。

After he has finished, he cleans his cowsheds and then goes out into his fields to look at his cows, or does some work in his vegetable garden. 做完这些以后，他清扫牛舍，然后去牧场看他的母牛，或者在菜园里干点活。

He is always very busy and his wife is too. 他总是很忙，他妻子也是。