Why Men Have to Work
The sky used to very close to the ground. In fact,it wasn’t any higher than a man’s arm when he raised it above his head.Whenever anybody got hungry. all he had to do was to reach up and break off a piece of the sky and eat it. That way, no one ever had to work.
Well, it was a fine arrangement for a while, but sometimes people would break off more than they could eat, and what they couldn’t eat they just threw on the geound. After all, the sky was so big that there would always be enough for everybody to eat. What did it matter if they broke off more than ther actually wanted.
Maybe it didn’t matter to them, but it mattered to the sky.In fact, it made the sky angry to see itself lying on the ground,half-eaten,like garbage.So one day the sky spoke out and said,“Now look-at-here!Can’t have this!Uh-uh.Can’t have you people just breaking off a piece of me every time your stomach growls and then taking a little bite and throwing the rest away.Now if you din’t cut it out,l’m going to move go faraway,no one will ever touch me again!”
Well,people got the message.In fact,they were pretty scared,and for a while they made sure that no one ever broke off more of the sky than he could eat.But slowly they began to forget.One day,a man came by and broke off a chunk big enough to feed forty people for a month.He took a few little bites,licked around the edges,threw the rest oves his shoulder,and walked on down the road just as happy and dumb as anything you’ve ever seen.Well,the sky didn’t say a word,but with a great roar,the sky lifted itself up as high as it could,and that was pretty high.
Whe the people realized what happening,they began crying and pleading with the sky to come back.They promised that they would never do it again,but the sky acted like it didn’t hear a word.
The next day,the people didn’t have a thing to eat,and they had to go to work to feed themselves,and that’s why man is working to this very day.

为什么人们需要工作
天曾经离地面很近。说实在的，当人们想把它撑过头顶的时候它也不比人的胳膊高。饿的时候人们唯一需要做的就是举起手掰一块儿天空来吃。如此，从来没有人需要工作。
本来呢，这是挺好的一个情况，可就是有时候人们掰下来了多过他们可以吃得下的天，这吃不了的他们就扔在地上，毕竟天空大的总是有足够的给每个人吃。掰下来他们用不完的也没什么大不了的。
这可能对人们来说没什么，但对于天空来讲，这关系大了。实在的来讲，天空看到自己被吃了一半像垃圾般的躺在地上,就非常生气。于是有一天天空大声宣布：“现在，看这里！不能再这样了！绝不能。不能再让你们这帮人一到肚子叫了就取下一点儿我然后吃一口就扔了。你们看着，如果你们再不停止这样做，我就要走得远远的，再也没有人可以碰到我了！”
好了，这下人们清楚了。要说他们还挺害怕的，甚至有一段时间他们还竭力保证没有任何人掰下了他们吃不下的天。但渐渐的，他们开始忘记了。有一天，一个男的撕下了一片大的可供四十个人吃一个月的天。他咬了几小口，添了一下边上，就把剩下的扛在了自己肩上，走在街上就像你从来没见过的又高兴又愚蠢的什么东西一样。这下，天空倒是没说什么，但是只听一声巨吼，天空把自己提到了它能提的极限－－那可不是一般的高。
当人们意识到发生什么了以后，他们开始痛哭并且央求天空回来。他们保证他们再也不会那么做了，可天空假装它什么也没听见。
那天以后，人们没有任何可吃的了，于是他们只好靠努力工作来养活自己。这也就是为什么人们一直工作到今天。