When Charley awoke one morning（当查理有一天早上醒来）, he looked out the window and saw the ground deeply covered with snow（他看了看窗户外面，看到地面积了一层厚厚的雪。）. On the side of the house nearest the kitchen, the snow was deeper than Charley's head. （在房子最靠近厨房的那一边，雪已经厚到比查理还要高了。）

Charley's father told him that they needed a path through the snow.（查理的爸爸告诉他，他们需要清理一条路出去。" I would make one if I had time," （”如果我有时间的话我来弄“）said his father, "but I have to go to work. Could you make a path, Charley?"（爸爸说，“但是我得上班。你可以帮这个忙吗？查理？”）

"How could I do that?" （“我怎么行呢？”）asked Charley. "The snow is higher than my head!"（查理问道，“雪都高过我的头了。”）

"Little by little," said Charley's father.（“一点点来”查理的爸爸说。）

So Charley got the snow shovel and started working.（所以查理拿上雪锹开始清理。）He shoveled and shoveled as hard as he could（他尽自己最大努力在铲雪）, but it was very slow work.（但是真的非常非常慢。） "I don't think I can do it, mother," he said. "There is too much snow!"（“妈妈，我觉得我不行。”他说，“雪太多了。”

"Little by little, Charley," said his mother.（“一点点来，查理”，妈妈说） "The snow fell in tiny flakes, but see what a great pile it has made."（“雪都是小片雪花掉落的，可是看看落成了多么大的一堆呀。”）

"Yes I see, Mother. If I throw it away little by little, I can do it."（“嗯嗯，我明白了，妈妈。如果我一点点清理的话，总会清理干净的。”）

Charley continued working as hard as he could.（查理继续尽自己最大努力的清理。）When his father came home in the evening（那天晚上爸爸回家的时候）, he was very happy to see a nice, clear path.（他非常开心地看到一条漂亮、整洁的小路。）The next day he gave Charley a fine, blue sled.（第二天，他给了查理一个精美的蓝色的雪橇。）Written on the side of the sled were the words "Little by little."（雪橇的侧面写着“慢慢来”）

Word List（词汇列表）

path: a small road, way;（小路）

little by little: a small amount at time until finished;（慢慢来，一点点来）

tiny: a very small amount;（小的，少量的）

pile: a large amount of something--many things on top on each other;（一堆）

sled: a small vehicle for traveling on snow.（雪橇）