穷人和一枚硬币（英文）

来源：阅读, 2020, (45): 36.

<正>A poor man goes to see a doctor."Doctor," he says."Please help me. I swallowed(吞下)a coin about a month ago.""Why didn’t you come to me sooner(早一点)?"asks the doctor."Well,"answers the poor man,"I didn’t need the coin then(那时候)."