掌握一门外语很重要

某日，和朋友聊天，觉得现如今，耗子减少了。是的，已有多年见不到耗子了。

耗子无论大小，名字前都有“老”字，在中国民间流行的的十二属相中排名第一。子鼠、丑牛、寅虎、卯兔、辰龙、巳蛇、午马、未羊、申猴、酉鸡、戌狗、亥猪，大千世界各色人等，无不划归于此。

据说，一只老耗子被天敌幼猫追逐，老耗子被追急了，扭头向猫来了几声狗叫，猫一迟疑，耗子就溜到洞里去了。在洞里，老耗子教育小耗子时说了一句名言：这年头，掌握一门外语很重要。

    One day, while chatting with friends, I realized that there are fewer rats nowadays. It has been many years since I last saw a rat.

Whether big or small, the name of a rat always begins with the word "old" and ranks first among the twelve zodiac signs popular in Chinese folklore. From the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, to Pig, all kinds of people and creatures in the world are classified accordingly.

It is said that an old rat was being chased by a young cat, and when the rat became desperate, it turned its head and barked at the cat a few times. The cat hesitated, and the rat slipped into its hole. Inside the hole, the old rat imparted a famous saying to the young rats: "These days, mastering a foreign language is very important."."