亲爱的同学们，今天是赵校长英语小课堂坚持日更的第84天。
一天一个英语小知识，相信日积月累的力量。
今天，赵校长继续带来长期占据美国亚马逊畅销榜第一名的《Who Moved My Cheese?》的翻译之第9节：
They ranted and raved at the injustice of it all. Haw started to get depressed. What would happen if the Cheese wasn't there tomorrow? He had made future plans based on this Cheese.
他们怒吼着、咆哮着：这一切都不公平。唧唧开始变得沮丧。如果明天奶酪还是不在，该怎么办呢？基于这些奶酪，他已经制定好了未来的计划。
The little people couldn't believe it. How could this have happened? No one had warned them. It wasn't right. It was not the way things were supposed to be.
小矮人们简直不敢相信。这是怎么发生的呢？没有人警告过他们。这是不正确的。事情不应该是这样子的。
Hem and Haw went home that night hungry and discouraged. But before they left, Haw wrote on the wall :
那天晚上，哼哼和唧唧饥肠辘辘地，又灰心丧气地回了家。但在他们离开之前，唧唧在墙上写道：
THE MORE IMPORTANT YOUR CHEESE IS TO YOU THE MORE YOU WANT TO HOLD ON TO IT.
奶酪对你越重要，你就越想抓住它。
The next day Hem and Haw left their homes, and returned to Cheese Station C again, where they still expected, somehow, to find their Cheese.
第二天，哼哼和唧唧离开家，又回到奶酪C站，莫名其妙地，他们仍然希望期待着能在那里找到他们的奶酪。
The situation hadn't changed, the Cheese was no longer there. The littlepeople didn't know what to do. Hem and Haw just stood there, immobilized like two statues.
情况没有改变，奶酪已经不在那里了。小矮人不知道该怎么办。哼哼和唧唧站在那里，像两座雕像一样一动不动。
Haw shut his eyes as tight as he could and put his hands over his ears. He just wanted to block everything out. He didn't want to know the Cheese supply had gradually been getting smaller. He believed it had been moved all of a sudden.
唧唧紧紧地闭上眼睛，用手捂住耳朵。他只想把一切都挡在外面。他不想知道奶酪的供应量一直在逐渐减少。他相信它们是突然被人给移走的。
Hem analyzed the situation over and over and eventually his complicated brain with its huge belief system took hold, "Why did they do this to me?" he demanded. "What's really going on here?"
哼哼把形势反复地分析，最终他那复杂的大脑被信念系统所占据：“他们为什么要这样对我？”“这到底是怎么回事？”
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