男孩在圣诞节得到一个放大镜，然后把草坪点着了
A Texas couple thought a magnifying glass would be an innocent Christmas gift for their pre-teen son — until he accidentally set the lawn on fire with it.
一对来自得克萨斯州的夫妇认为，送给他们不到十岁的儿子一个放大镜是一件天真无邪的圣诞礼物——直到他不小心把草坪点着了。
Nissa-Lynn Parson, of McKinney, posted to Facebook that she and her husband got their 12-year-old son, Cayden, a magnifying glass for reading. But the parents were stunned when he ended up starting a small fire on Christmas Day.
麦金尼的尼萨-林恩·帕森(Nissa-Lynn Parson)在Facebook上发帖称，她和丈夫给12岁的儿子凯登(Cayden)买了一个放大镜，供他阅读。但当他在圣诞节那天点燃了一堆小火时，他的父母都惊呆了。
“We discovered he and his two brothers went out on the driveway and burned a couple holes in some paper,” she wrote. “Everything was under control until the boys came running into the house telling us that a corner of the lawn was on fire and the Christmas lights were melting!”
“我们发现他和他的两个兄弟走到车道上，在一些纸上烧了几个洞，”她写道。“一切都在控制之中，直到孩子们跑进房子，告诉我们草坪的一个角落着火了，圣诞彩灯也正在融化!”
She posted photos and a video of the family trying to douse the smoking, blackened lawn.
她上传了一些照片和一段视频，视频中这家人正试图扑灭冒着烟、被熏黑的草坪。
“Justin and I rushed outside to see the entire front lawn turning black!” Parson wrote. “We grabbed buckets, Justin turned the sprinklers on, and I grabbed blankets to smother and trap it – before it could spread any more into the neighbors yard! What a sight to see – a bunch of people running around crazy trying to put a front lawn fire out while wearing matching Christmas jammies!”
“贾斯汀和我冲了出去，看到前面的整个草坪都变黑了!”帕森写道。“我们拿了水桶，贾斯汀打开了洒水器，我拿了毯子把火闷灭——趁它还没扩散到邻居的院子里!一群人穿着配套的圣诞睡衣，疯了似的跑来跑去，想把草坪前面的火扑灭。”
Luckily, no one was hurt, but the brothers have some hefty chores ahead of them in a few months.
幸运的是，没有人受伤，但几个月后，兄弟俩还有一些繁重的家务要做。
“They will definitely have yard work to do once spring comes,” their mother told the station.
“当春天来了，他们肯定得在院子里干活。”她们的母亲告诉电视台。
“This will be a story passed down to generations and generations,” she added. “’Remember the one year you lit the lawn on fire?’ Yeah, this will be a story that lasts a long time.”
“这将是一个代代相传的故事，”她补充道。“‘还记得你点燃草坪的那一年吗?’是的，这将是一个持续很长时间的故事。”
