多年前,伦敦有一个叫本杰明·法利吉尤的孩子,父母双亡,贫病交加,无依无靠。为了糊口,他不得不到一家印刷厂做童工。环境虽苦,可他志向未泯,与书报结下不解之缘。为了买书,他经常忍饥挨饿。一天早晨,他在上班途中发现书店橱窗里摆着一本打开的新书,便隔着玻璃如饥似渴读起来,直到把打开的两页读完才恋恋不舍地走开。第二天,他身不由己又来到这个橱窗前,发现那本书往后又翻开了两页!他一口气读完。他想把书买下来,可嫌价格太高。令他感到奇怪的是,此后,这本书每天都会往后翻开两页。他就每天都来读,直到把全书读完。 Years ago, London had a boy named Benjamin Faridijoo. Both parents died in poverty and sickness. In order to survive, he had to go to a printing house to do child labor. Although the environment bitter, but he is not ambitious, and the book closed knot. He often starved for books. One morning, when he was on his way to work, he found an open book in the bookstore window and read it hungrily through glass until he read the two pages open and reluctantly walked away. The very next day, he came to the window again and found that the book opened two more pages later. He wanted to buy the book, but the price may be too high. What surprised him was that since then, the book opened two pages later each day. He read every day until he finished reading the book.