Bambi looked down at his mother and said, "let's go to the meadow(草地). "

His mother looked up at him, "go to the meadow now?" Her voice(嗓音)was full of surprise and fear(害怕), so Bambi became quite afraid.

"Can't we go to the meadow?" he asked softly. "No, you can't go now," his mother answered.

"Why?" Bambi thought there was something strange going on here. He became more afraid, but at the same time he wanted to learn about everything. "Why can't we go to the meadow?" he asked.

"You'll find out all about it later when you're older," his mother replied. "But," Bambi asked again, "why don't you tell me now?"

"Later," his mother repeated, "you're nothing but a baby," she went on in a soft voice, "and we don't talk about these things to children." She thought about it carefully and said. "Go to the meadow at this time of day. I don't even like to think of it. Why, it's in the daytime now. The sun is shining brightly in the sky."

"But it was in the daytime when we went to the meadow before," Bambi said. "That's different," his mother said, "it was early in the morning."

"Can we only go there early in the morning?" Bambi was very curious. He always liked asking questions and wanted to know about everything.

His mother smiled. "Only in the early morning or late evening," she said, "or at night."

"And never in the daytime, never?"

"Well," she said at last, "I can't make you understand. You are too young…Some of us go there…But it is too dangerous. That's what life teaches us."

①________Thousands of years ago, people went to public (公共的) bath houses to clean themselves. Today, it may be strange for someone to wash with others outside their home. But most houses did not have bathrooms in the home at that time. People had to go to public bath houses. In fact, they were not just a place to wash, but also to meet with others and have a rest.

②________The first public bath house was in India over 4, 000 years ago. From that time, many countries used public bath houses. In ancient (古代的) Greece, the public bath houses included areas for washing, a common pool for resting and areas for exercise. In ancient Rome, there were also public bath houses. Some even included game rooms, gardens and libraries!

③ _________ Countries like Turkey, Japan, China, Hungary and Italy have them now, but in different styles. The Korean public bath houses do not only have the areas for washing. They have more. Most of them have computer rooms, dining halls and places for sleeping on warm floors and having fun in front of large TVs. Amazingly, many large public bath houses in Korea are open 24 hours a day, days a week.

④_________ Public bath houses sounds like a strange idea, but it's an interesting thing you may want to try if you can. They are a lot of fun.