原文
冬日的一天,農(nóng)夫發(fā)現(xiàn)一條凍僵了的蛇.他很可憐它,就把它放在懷里.當他身上的熱氣把蛇溫暖以后,蛇很快蘇醒了,露出了殘忍的本性,給了農(nóng)夫致命的傷害.農(nóng)夫臨死之前說：“我竟然去可憐毒蛇,就應該受到這種報應啊.”
英文譯文
　　The Farmer and the Snake 　　ONE winter a farmer found a snake stiff and frozen with cold.He had compassion on it,and taking it up,placed it in his bosom.The snake was quickly revived by the warmth,and resuming its natural instincts,bit its benefactor,inflicting on him a mortal wound."Oh," cried the farmer with his last breath,"I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel,　　" The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
中心
　　這個故事是說,做人一定要分清善惡,只能把援助之手伸向善良的人.對那些惡人即使仁至義盡,他們的本性也是不會改變.
寓意
　　鞭撻了那些恩將仇報的惡人和幫助惡人的偽善的人.告誡我們要學會辨認是非,不要與壞人打交道,因為狐貍也會哭泣、蛇也有落難的時候,所以這則寓言告誡我們要明辨是非.