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With a pail of milk on the head, a milk-woman was walking home from the field. Suddenly, a wonderful idea came to her mind.
“The money from selling this pail of milk can buy at least three hundred eggs,” she thought. “The eggs will produce two hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will be sold in the market when the price is the highest. By the end of the year, I'll have enough money to buy a new evening dress. In this dress I will go to the Christmas party where all the young men will ask me for a dance and propose to me, but I will shake my head, and refuse them all.”
▲ pail [peɪl] n. 桶
▲ propose [prəˈpəʊz] v. 求婚
As she thought so, she shook her head, and the milk pail fell down to the ground. The milk was gone, so was her imaginary plan.
· Don't count your chickens before they are hatched .