友谊比金子更贵重，《时代广场的蟋蟀》充分印证了这个道理。这本书讲述的是蟋蟀、猫咪、老鼠和主人之间真挚的友谊。
Friendship is more precious than gold. The book Cricket on the Times Square has clearly explained it. This book tells us the true friendship between a cricket, a cat, a mouse and their master.
        蟋蟀柴斯特因贪吃来到了纽约，幸运地碰到了喜爱它的主人马利欧，又结识了老鼠塔克和猫咪亨利。在一次聚会中，柴斯特不小心啃坏了别人的钞票，此时老鼠塔克挺身而出，主动献出了它一生的财产。亨利和塔克每天晚上都去找柴斯特，一起分享得来不易的美味，喜欢音乐的柴斯特也经常为亨利和塔克表演他的自创曲。马利欧的妈妈发现了柴斯特的音乐天赋，把这个新闻登上了报纸。柴斯特很快在纽约出了名，从此人们都来马利欧的报摊上看柴斯特表演。柴斯特见这样可以帮助马利欧挣钱，于是留在报摊上演唱。马力欧的生意红火了起来，一家人也因此摆脱了贫困。可是因为每天要不停地演唱，柴斯特的精神日渐衰退，它开始思念自己的故乡。最后它踏上了回家的路，几个朋友从此分离。
Chester came to New York because of his love for food. Luckily he met his master Mario and his friends Tuck, a mouse, and Henry, a cat. On one party, Chester has accidentally chewed someone's bill. Then Tuck stepped forward and contributed his own possession. Henry and Tuck came to Chester every day and shared with him the hard-earned food. As a music enthusiast, Chester often performed his own melodies in front of Tuck and Mario. His talent was discovered by Mario's mum. She then reported this to a local newspaper. Chester soon became famous in New York. People all came to Chester's performance before Mario's news stand. Chester thought he could help Mario to earn more money in this way. So he kept singing there. Mario's business was getting better and better every day and at last his family got rid of poverty. But because of the toil of singing every day, Chester was suffering a physical breakdown. He began to miss his hometown. Finally he decided to go back and left all his friends. 
        柴斯特、亨利、塔克、马利欧之间深厚的友谊让我欣赏和敬佩，我希望我能和朋友相处得这么好，也希望大家都能拥有这样的友情。
I really appreciate the deep friendship among Chester, Henry, Tuck and Mario. I hope I can have such friendship in my life.

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• talent [´tælənt]   n.天才；才干；天资   (初中英语单词)
• performance [pə´fɔ:məns]   n.履行；行为；工作   (初中英语单词)
• poverty [´pɔvəti]   n.贫穷(乏，瘠)；不足   (初中英语单词)
• suffering [´sʌfəriŋ]   n.痛苦；灾害   (初中英语单词)
• physical [´fizikəl]   a.物质的；有形的   (初中英语单词)
• appreciate [ə´pri:ʃieit]   v.评价；珍惜；感激   (初中英语单词)
• cricket [´krikit]   n.蟋蟀；板球   (高中英语单词)
• decided [di´saidid]   a.明显的；决定的   (高中英语单词)
• accidentally [,æksi´dentəli]   ad.偶然地   (英语六级单词)
• enthusiast [in´θju:ziæst]   n.热衷者，渴慕者   (英语六级单词)
• breakdown [´breikdaun]   n.崩溃；倒塌；损耗   (英语六级单词)