The Dog and the Shadow（狗和影子）
It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace.Now,on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook.As he crossed,he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath.Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat,he made up his mind to have that also.So he made a snap at the shadow in the water,but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out,dropped into the water and was never seen more.
一只狗嘴里銜著一塊肉,走過一條河上面的橋,看見他自己在水里的影子,以為是另一只狗,那時狗銜著的肉,比他自己的還要大一倍.因此他仍掉自己的那一塊,狠狠地撲向那只狗,想奪到那一塊較大的肉.結(jié)果兩頭都落了空,因為他想要抓取在水中的那一塊,只不過是一個影子,而原來的那一塊,也被水沖走了.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
謹記,切莫因追逐幻影而丟失已有的東西.
A hare jeered at a tortoise for the slowness of his pace .But he laughed ,and said that he would run against her and beat her any day she would name .“Come on ,“ said the hare ,“you will soon see what my feet are made of .“So it was aGREed that they should start at once .The tortoise went off jogging along ,without a moment‘s stopping ,at his usual steady pace .The hare treating the whole matter very lightly ,said he would first take a little nap ,and that she should soon overtake the tortoise .Meanwhile ,the tortoise plodded on ,and the hare ,oversleeping herself ,arrived at the goal ,only to see that the tortoise had got in before her .
Slow and steady wins the race.
兔子嘲笑烏龜?shù)牟阶优赖穆?但是他笑了,說總有一天他會和她賽跑,并且贏他.“快點“,兔子說,“你很快會看到我是跑的多么的快.“他們打算馬上就開始比賽.烏龜拼命的爬,一刻都不停止,兔子認為比賽太輕松了,他說他先打個盹,然后很快的可以追上烏龜.同時烏龜堅持爬行,當兔子醒來跑到的時候只能看著烏龜在他前面到達終點.
穩(wěn)扎穩(wěn)打終能勝利.