Every day, Georgia brought her lunch to work in a blue bag. She kept it in the office fridge until noon.
乔治娅每天都用一个蓝色袋子把午饭带到公司。她把它放在办公室的冰箱里,一直放到中午。
On Monday, her lunch was gone. She checked the fridge twice, but the blue bag was not there.
星期一,她的午饭不见了。她把冰箱查了两遍,可是蓝色袋子不在。
"Someone took my lunch," she said to her coworker Emeka. "I'm sure I put it in the fridge this morning."
“有人拿走了我的午饭,”她对同事埃梅卡说,“我确定今天早上放进冰箱了。”
Emeka opened the fridge and looked inside. "There's a blue bag here," he said, "but it's not yours. It has a different name on it."
埃梅卡打开冰箱,往里面看了看。“这里有个蓝色袋子,”他说,“可是不是你的。上面写的名字不一样。”
Georgia looked again. The bag said "Georgina" in small letters.
乔治娅又看了一遍。袋子上用小字写着“乔治娜”。
"That's not my name," she said. "But it looks just like my bag."
“这不是我的名字,”她说,“可是它看起来跟我的袋子一模一样。”
On Tuesday, the same thing happened again. Georgia's lunch was gone again. A similar blue bag with the name "Georgina" sat in its place.
星期二,同样的事又发生了。乔治娅的午饭又不见了,原来的位置上放着一个相似的蓝色袋子,上面写着“乔治娜”。
"There are two blue bags in this office," Emeka said. "You and Georgina both use the same kind."
“这间办公室里有两个蓝色袋子,”埃梅卡说,“你和乔治娜用的是同一种。”
They found Georgina at a desk across the building. She laughed when she heard the story.
他们在大楼另一头的一张办公桌旁找到了乔治娜。她听完这件事,笑了起来。
"I grab the first blue bag I see," Georgina said. "I never check the name."
“我看到第一个蓝色袋子就拿,”乔治娜说,“从来不看名字。”
"Let's write our names in big letters next time," Georgia said.
“下次我们把名字写成大字吧,”乔治娅说。
From that day, Georgia wrote her name in bright red letters. No lunch ever disappeared again.
从那天起,乔治娅用鲜红的大字写上自己的名字。再也没有哪顿午饭丢过。






