我表哥修好了那台风扇短文★★★★★
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My cousin took apart the old fan when it stopped: nobody in our family throws out a machine that can work.
我表哥把那台旧风扇拆开了，因为它不转了，而我们家没人会扔一部还能修的机器。
He found it in ten minutes: one small part was worn through, and the wires were hard with age.
他十分钟就找到了：其中一个小件磨穿了，几根线也老得发硬。
He did not have the part, so he cut a new one from the lid of an oil tin.
他没有那个件，就从一个装过油的铁罐盖子上剪了一个新的出来。
The fan has run for three summers since. My mother still calls it his fan.
那台风扇从那以后又吹过三个夏天。我妈到现在还说那是他的风扇。
What I learned from him is not about fans. It is that most broken things only wait for somebody to open them.
我从他那儿学到的不是风扇。是大部分坏掉的东西只是在等一个人把它打开。
People pay good money to throw away what a screwdriver could have saved.
人们花不少钱去扔掉一样东西，而一把螺丝刀本来能救它。