有个农夫住在路边上。
尽管这不是繁忙路段，但有时也有汽车从农场路过。
农场大门旁边的路上有个大坑。这个坑里总是充满了水，汽车司机看不出坑有多深。他们以为可能很浅。而司机们一旦把车开进坑里，就别想再开出来，因为坑太深了。
农夫也不怎么在农场里干活，大部分时间都在望着这个坑。当汽车开进坑里时，他就用拖拉机把它拉上来，然后向司机收很多钱。
一天，一位汽车司机对他说:“你夜以继日把汽车往外拉，肯定挣了很多钱。”
“噢，不，”农夫说。“我夜里不拉车，而是往这坑里灌水。”
There was a farmer who lived near a road．
Itwas not a busy road，but from time to time，cars passed the farm．
Near the farm gate，there was a large hole in the road．This hole was always full of water，and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was．They thought it was probably shallow．Then when they drove into the hole，they could not drive out because it was so deep．
The farmer did not spend much time working on his farm．He spent most of it watching the hole．When a car drove into it，he pulled the car out with his tractor and charged the driver a lot of money for doing this．
One day，the driver of a car said to him，“You mustmake a lot of money pulling cars out of this hole night and day．”
“Oh，no，”the farmer said．“I don’t pull cars out of the hole at night but fill the hole with water．”
