英文短篇故事（纽约）174 A Sticker on Every Apple

 　　Randy was peeling the sticker off an apple. He asked, "Where do these stickers come from?" His dad said, "You know about the tooth fairy, right? He leaves a dollar under the pillow when kids lose their baby teeth. Well, these stickers come from a fairy, too—the apple sticker fairy. He travels around the world putting stickers on all the apples." Randy said, "But that's a lot of apples. That's a lot of stickers. Doesn't he get tired?" His dad said, "No, fairies don't ever get tired. The apple sticker fairy can lick¹ the stickers and put them on all the world's apples and never get tired." Randy asked, "He licks² the stickers? His cooties are on all the stickers and all the apples? Yuck! I don't want to eat an apple with cooties on it." His dad said, "Don't worry. Fairies are like angels. They don't have cooties."

1 lick   

vt.舔（吃），打败，轻拍，吞卷；n.舔，少许

参考例句：

• I think we could lick the best teams there.我想我们能打败那儿最好的队。
• The house would look better with a lick of paint.这房子稍加颜色就好看了。

2 licks   

舔( lick的第三人称单数 )； 打败； （波浪）轻拍； （火焰）吞卷

参考例句：

• He was ready to take his licks. 他准备挨打。
• It licks me how he did it. 我真弄不懂他是怎么做成的。