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0每天五分钟听经典英文故事，读绘本，磨耳朵。一个挥霍的年轻人七次出海冒险，用机智与勇气在死亡边缘换回财富的传奇故事。
In the busiest street of Baghdad, a porter leaned against a rich merchant's wall to catch his breath
He carried a sack of rice on his back
His name was Sinbad, just like the owner of the house
But their lives were as different as night and day
He looked up at the carved door and sighed
The door opened
The owner invited him in, served him food and wine, and asked why he sighed
The porter said, "I carry rice all day longI earn less than the price of half a chickenhow come you live in such a big house and wear such fine clothes"
The owner laughed
"Do you think this house came freesit down, and I'll tell you how I got everything I own"
When I was young, my father left me a lot of money
I spent it on parties and fun
In a few years, it was all gone
When I had nothing left but a bed, I sold the bed
I bought goods and sailed away with the merchants
I told myself, either I win back my father's fortune, or I die at sea
On my first voyage, our ship stopped by a small island
We went ashore to build a fire and cook
Suddenly, the "island" began to move
It wasn't an island at all
It was a giant whale, fast asleep
The whale got scared and dove into the sea
The ship sailed away without me
I grabbed a piece of wood and drifted on the sea for a whole day and night
A merchant ship picked me up
By luck, my old ship's goods were still safe, and the captain gave them all back to me
I sold the goods, made a good profit, and went home to Baghdad
But I didn't keep that money for long
On my second voyage, I overslept on a desert island
When I woke up, the ship was gone
All alone, I found a huge egg
It was a roc's egg
I tied myself to the bird's leg
When the roc flew, it carried me into the Valley of Diamonds
That valley was full of diamonds, everywhere you looked
But giant snakes, thick as tree trunks, coiled at the bottom
Anyone who landed there would die
I filled a bag with diamonds
Then I saw a piece of meat fall from the mountaintop, and a huge eagle swooped down to grab it
Then I understood
The merchants on the mountaintop used meat to lure the eagles, so the birds would carry diamonds up to them
So I tied myself to a piece of meat
An eagle carried me up to the mountaintop
The merchants were shocked
I shared my diamonds with them and took a bag home to Baghdad
On my third voyage, a storm blew our ship to the land of cannibals
A giant roasted my friends one by one on a spit
My friends and I took red-hot iron rods and poked out the giant's eyes
We ran to the sea and built a raft
The giant chased us with his friends and threw stones
They sank our raft, and two of my friends were caught and eaten
I drifted alone to another island, where a group of merchants saved me
I came home with new wealth
My fourth voyage was the closest I ever came to death
After my ship was wrecked, I drifted to an island of savages
The people there caught us and fed us grass, fattening us up like animals before they ate us
My friends were eaten one by one
But I refused to eat the grass
I grew thin as a stick, so nobody paid me any mind
One night, I slipped away
I climbed over the mountain and reached a polite country, where I got married
But my wife fell sick and died
In that land, when a wife dies, the husband must be buried with her
They threw me into a deep pit
The pit was full of food and water left by earlier burials, and full of bones too
I lived on that food
One day, a wild beast crawled in through a hole in the wall
I followed it and found a way out
I climbed out of the pit, and some passing merchants saved me
I went home to Baghdad with treasure
On my fifth voyage, I met something even scarier
A white-bearded old man climbed onto my shoulders, and he wouldn't get off
They call him the Old Man of the Sea
He rode me by day and by night
He ate and slept on my back
He used me like a donkey, and I carried him for years
Then one day, I picked grapes and made wine
The old man drank too much and fell into a deep sleep
I threw him off my shoulders, and he fell to the ground and died
At last I was free
I caught a ship and went home
On my sixth voyage, my ship was wrecked again
I drifted to an island covered with jewels
There I found an underground river
I built a raft and floated down it for days and nights
Some merchants downstream fished me out
They sent me home to Baghdad
Only then did I learn that the river ran all the way to the edge of Baghdad
On my seventh voyage, I ran into pirates, and they sold me as a slave
My master made me shoot elephants with a bow and arrow to get their ivory
Day after day, I shot arrows into the elephant herd
Then one day, the elephants led me to a secret place
It was piled high with ivory
It was the elephants' own graveyard, where they came to bury their kind
I told my master the secret, and he gave me a big share of the treasure
With ivory and gold, I came back to Baghdad one last time
Sinbad finished his story
He looked at the porter and said, "You ask me why I live in such a big houseseven voyages, and seven times I nearly died at seaI barely escaped with my lifethis house was bought with my life"
He told his steward to bring a bag of gold coins and gave it to the porter
Porter Sinbad took the coins and couldn't speak
From that day on, the two Sinbads were friends
And the porter never sighed at the street corner again
