A crow,ready to die with thirst,flew with joy to a pitcher which he saw at a distance.But when he came up to it,he found the water so low that with all his stooping and straining he was unable to reach it.Thereupon he tried to bread the pitcher,then to overturn it,seeing some small pebbles at hand,he dropped a great many of them,one by one,into the pitcher,and so raised the water to the brim,and quenched his thirst.
Skill and patience will succeed where force fails necessity is the mother of invention.
一只快渴死的烏鴉,遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)地看見一只水壺,就高興地飛了過去,但是當(dāng)他飛到的時候發(fā)現(xiàn)壺里的水淺得怎么用力彎腰伸頸也夠不著,于是他試著把水壺打破,又試著把他推倒.但是力量不足,都做不到,最后看見近邊有許多小石子,他一個個地把很多石子丟進(jìn)了水壺,這樣使水上升到壺口,就解了渴.
在體力做不到的時候,技巧和耐心會幫助人成功,需要是發(fā)明之母.
猴子撈月 The monkey drags for the moon
One day,a little monkey is playing by the well.He looks in the well and shouts:“Oh!My god!The moon has fallen into the well!” An older monkeys runs over,takes a look,and says,“Goodness me!The moon is really in the water!” And orderly monkey comes over.He is very surprised as well and cries out:“The moon is in the well.” A group of monkeys run over to the well.They look at the moon in the well and shout:“The moon did fall into the well!Come on!Let’ get it out!” Then,the oldest monkey hangs on the tree up side down,with his feet on the branch.And he pulls the next monkey’s feet with his hands.All the other monkeys follow his suit,And they join each other one by one down to the moon in the well.Just before they reach the moon,the oldest monkey raises his head and happens to see the moon in the sky; He yells excitedly “Don’t be so foolish!The moon is still in the sky!”
猴子撈月
一天,一個小猴子在井邊玩耍.他往井中看去,突然大叫起來“哦,天啊.月亮掉進(jìn)井里了”一個更老的猴子跑了過來,瞥了一眼,說道“我的天,月亮確實在水中啊!”然后一個跑勤的猴子跑了過來.他也對井中的月亮吃驚不已,大叫道“月亮在井中”一群猴子跑了過來.他們也看著井中的月亮大叫道"月亮確實掉進(jìn)井中了.來啊,我們把它撈起來“然后,最老的猴子倒掛在樹上,用腿鉤住樹枝,拉著另一個猴子的腿.然后所有的猴子都跟著這么做.他們就這樣一個接一個地慢慢下到井底.正當(dāng)他們要夠到月亮的時候,那個最老的猴子舉起他的手,正巧看到月亮在空中.他興奮地大叫”別傻了,月亮還在天上呢“