英文寓言故事(英语动物寓言故事)

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动物英文版篇一: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 .


  动物寓言故事英文版篇二:The horse and the ass

  A horse and an ass were traveling together. The horse was prancing along in its beautiful trappings, but the ass was carrying the heavy weight in its saddlebags.


  "I wish I were you," sighed the ass. "You have nothing to do, and wear such a beautiful harness."


  The next day there was a great battle. The horse was badly woundedin the final charge.


  The ass passed and saw the dying horse. "I was wrong," said the ass."Safety is much more important than beautiful clothes."


  动物寓言故事英文版篇三:The Cock and the Pearl

  A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.


  "Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard?


  "You may be a treasure," quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."


  Precious things are for those that can prize them.

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