59～60渔夫和小鱼、苍蝇和蜂蜜罐--双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《伊索寓言(精选)Aesop'sFables(Selections)》

Aesops Fables (Selections) 五九渔夫和小鱼 渔夫辛苦了一整天，只捕到一条小鱼。“请放我走吧，老爷，”鱼说道： “我太小了，你现在还不能吃我。如果你把我放回河里，我很快就会长大， 到时候你可以把我捉来美美地吃上一顿。”渔夫说：“不行，不行，我的小 鱼，我现在已经抓住你了，以后我可能就捉不到你了。” 抓在手里的东西再小，也胜过美妙的幻想。 LIX The Fisher and the Little Fish It happened that a Fisher,after fishing all day,caught only a little fish.“PrayD,let me go,master,”said the Fish.“I am much too small for your eating just now.If you put me back into the river I shall soon grow,then you can make a fine meal off me." “Nay,nay,my little Fish,”said the Fisher,“I have you now.I may not catch you hereafter②，.” A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect ①pray /prei/r.恳求，乞求 ②hereafter/hiar'a:fta/m.将来 prospect/prospekt/L.展望，想像 ·072· 伊索寓言（椭选） 六O苍蝇和蜂蜜罐 管家的屋子里打碎了一罐蜂蜜，一群苍蝇循着香味飞来，站在蜂蜜里贪 婪地大吃。没过多久，苍蝇的脚被蜂蜜粘住了，任凭它们怎么扇动翅膀，也 飞不起来，渐渐地，一只只苍蝇都陷入蜂蜜里，被蜜淹死了。垂死的苍蝇哀 叹道：“我们真愚蠢，为一点小小的享乐送了性命。” 快乐背后往往暗藏着痛苦和伤害。 LX The Flies and the Honey-Pot A Number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned2 in a housekeeper's room,and placing their feet in it, ate greedily.Their feet,however,became so smeared 3 with the honey that they could not use their wings,nor release themselves,and were suffocated④.Just as they were expiring⑤，they exclaimed,“O foolish creatures that we are,for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves." Pleasure bought with pains,hurts. ①jard3aln.广口瓶 ②overtum/ouv3'ton/么.翻倒，倾覆 3 smear/smia/.涂，擦上 ④suffocate /'sAfakeit/.(使)室息而死 ⑤expire /iks'paia/r.断气 6 creature/kri:tfa/n.生物 ·073·