25 tuổi mà còn dại
English Ẩn / hiện bản dịch
Twenty-Five and Still Gullible
Two brothers accidentally kicked their football into the neighboring garden. When they went to ask for it back, they found a man standing beside a broken vase, holding their ball.
"Did you two kick this ball?" he asked. Before they could recover from their surprise, he continued, "Thank you for freeing me from this vase. I'm a genie who was trapped inside for a very long time. To reward you for saving me, I'll grant each of you a wish. But there's one condition: you must serve me for a day."
So the brothers waited on him from morning until noon, and from noon until night. Late that night, the elder brother asked, "May we make our wishes now?"
"How old are you?" asked the genie.
"I'm twenty-five."
"How strange! Can someone really be twenty-five and still believe in genies?"
Từ vựng trong truyện
- accidentally: vô tình
- genie: thần đèn, thần trong bình
- grant: ban cho
- condition: điều kiện
- waited on him: phục vụ ông ta