The Ugly Duckling

杰瑞发布于2025-03-04

Once upon a time, down on an old farm lived a duck family and the mother duck had been sitting on a clutch of new eggs. One day morning the eggs hatched and out popped six chirpy ducklings. But one egg was bigger than the rest and didn’t hatch. The mother duck didn’t recall laying that seventh egg. How did it get there? Tock! Tock! The little prisoner was pecking inside his shell.

“Did I count the eggs wrongly?” mother duck wondered. But before she had time to think about it, the last egg finally hatched. A strange looking duckling with grey feathers that should have been yellow gazed at a worried mother. The ducklings grew quickly but mother duck had a secret worry.
“我数错蛋了吗？”鸭妈妈想。但她还没来得及想，最后一个蛋终于孵化了。一只长相奇怪的小鸭，灰色的羽毛应该是黄色的，盯着一位忧心忡忡的母亲。小鸭们长得很快，但鸭妈妈有一个秘密的担忧。