双语故事 玻璃瓶中的妖怪(6)

　　The spirit said arrogantly, "that is an easy trick," pulling himself in and making himself as thin and short as he had been before. He then crept back into the opening and through the neck of the bottle. He was scarcely inside when the student pushed the cork back into the bottle, and threw it back where it had been among the oak roots. And thus the spirit was deceived.

　　The student was about to return to his father, but the spirit cried out pitifully, "Oh, do let me out. Oh, do let me out."

　　"No," answered the student, "not a second time. I will not release a person who once tried to kill me, now that I have captured him again."

　　"If you will set me free," cried the spirit, "I will give you so much that you will have enough for all the days of your life."