他天天生旺了铁炉工作着。
Every day he would stand working beside his blazing furnace.
有一天早展，小学生张和赵上学去，走过铁匠的家。
One morning, when primary school pupils Zhang and Zhao were walking past the smithy on their way to school, they saw the blacksmith pumping a bellows to urge the fire in his furnace and blazing flames shooting up vigorously from under the coals.
张的小脑袋里忽然想起了一个问题： "为什么要拉这个风箱？
A question popped into Zhang's little brain. "Why is he using the bellows?" he asked.
赵说："你笨，不扇风，火怎么会旺？
Zhao asked in reply, " You silly, how could he make the fire burn better without using the bellows?" Then they started quarrelling over this question: Which was more capable, wind or fire?
没有风，火不会 旺，没有火，风便吹了个空。
Without fire, wind would be blowing for nothing.
"要是炉子里的煤不燃着火，风也没用，火也没用。
Without wind, fire could not burn nicely.
可是那边的山如果不几百年几千年的把那些树干兽骨重重 地压在地下，我们也一华子不会有这炉子里的煤。
But we would never have coal had it not been for the tree trunks and animal skeletons buried deep under mountains for hundreds or thousands of years.
所以一 定要我指出哪一间是书斋，那可不容易。
So it's next to impossible for me to point out exactly where my study is.
也许在我卧房隔壁的一间最 像，中间有只书桌，可是书桌上又堆满了书，没有地方摆稿纸，也没 有地方摆砚台，我又不会用钢笔写文章Q。
In the middle of it stands nothing but a desk a piled high with lots of books SO that there is practically no room for me to place my writing paper and the inkstone.
用钢笔写，我总嫌太滑，太 快；
I find the pen too slippery and moving a bit too fast, thus leaving little time for me to do more thinking.
Prefer the writing brush because can always keep pace with it.
一个书架， 里面是我最心爱的书籍，不肯借人的。
Though it sometimes may also move along a bit too fast, yet can always catch There are only two armchairs in the room plus a bookcase holding my most favorite books, which are not to be borrowed by anybody.
墙上只有一张水仙面.浅淡的 笔姿给你一种清高的空气；
Hanging on the wall is painting of narcissi done with light touches of ink imparting an air of moral superiority.
桌子上放不下，便堆 在椅子里；
When the desk is full.
Pile them up on the chairs.
理由是我从不整理我的书籍， 买到了新书就随便放，看过了又随便丢Q；
I never sort them I lay aside casually new acquisitions as well as books I've just finished reading.
假使为了写一篇文章，需 要参考时，每每费半个一个钟头去寻免。
Consequently, it often takes me couple of hours to hunt down a book for reference when I am writing.
三层楼 的叫作"三层楼书房"。
I just call the above- mentioned room "Upstairs Study", the room downstairs "Downstairs Study" and the bathroom on the third floor Third-floor Study" Since I usually read and write at night, you'll often find me sitting the "Upstairs Study" because it is close to my bedroom.
但是当我准备要全夜 写文章的时候，便只能待在"楼下书房"了。
But you'll find me in spacious "Downstairs Study" instead when I'm to spend the whole night writing.
天亮了，自己炖杯牛 奶，或是走到对面弄堂里买些油豆腐，谁都不会觉得讨厌。
At daybreak, I will heat up milk for myself or walk to alley On the opposite side of the street to buy some fried bean curd for breakfast alll done without making a nuisance of myself.
白天总是 不在家的时候多，一回家便得寻了书读；
I'm seldom at home in the daytime.
朋 友又喜欢要我写文章，因为我最明白编辑的痛苦，要二三千字我总肯 为他赶写。
They know that I, out of compassion for editors, will never decline to dash off an article of two to three thousand words.
我是无论如何脱离不了我的书斋的了。
At any rate, I'm inseparable from my library.
但是除非在我读书或是写 文章到了出神的时候，我总会感觉到这几间书斋没有一间是舒服的。
But none of my three studies makes me feel comfortable except when I'm completely absorbed in reading or writing.
我理想的书斋是一个极大的房间，里面要能容下二十个书架，冬天有 热书汀；
My ideal study should be roomy enough for holding twenty bookcases and have air-conditioning.
我希望有一只最大的书桌，上面可以尽我把书 籍纸张乱堆，中间还可以留一些地方安置笔砚稿纸之类。
And there should be a large desk there with enough space for books and writing paper to be jumbled up in piles on either side and for writing brush, inkstone, writing paper and so on to be placed in the middle.