158～159池边的牡鹿、燕子和乌鸦-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《伊索寓言(精选)Aesop'sFables(Selections)》

Aesop's Fables Selection 一五八池边的牡鹿 牡鹿酷热难当，来到池边喝水。看着水中的倒影，牡鹿由衷地欣赏自己 巨大气派而美丽多姿的角，而对自己纤细瘦弱的腿脚感到很不快。在他思忖 的时候，狮子来到池边，弓起身子，扑向牡鹿。牡鹿撒腿就逃，拼命快跑， 在开阔平坦的原野上，牡鹿始终可以和狮子拉开距离，可是跑进树林里，牡 鹿的角被树枝绊住了，狮子疾跑上去捉住了他。面临不能逃脱的厄运，牡鹿 自责不已：“我真是太可悲了!竟然欺骗了我自己!能拯救我生命的腿脚， 我看不上，引以为荣的角却葬送了我的性命。” 真正有价值的东西往往被低估。 ·186· 伊索寓官（精选） CLVIII The Stag at the Pool A Stag overpowered by heat came to a spring to drink.Seeing his own shadow reflected in the water,he greatly admired the size and variety of his horns,but felt angry with himself for having such slender and weak feet.While he was thus contemplating himself,a Lion appeared at the pool and crouched to spring upon him.The Stag immediately took to flight,and exerting his utmost speed,as long as the plain was smooth and open kept himself easily at a safe distance from the Lion.But entering a wood he became entangled by his horns,and the Lion quickly came up to him and caught him.When too late,he thus reproached himself:"Woe is me!How I have deceived myself!These feet which would have saved me I despised,and I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction." What is most truly valuable is often underrated. ①overpower/ouvo'paun/.击败 ②slender/slendo/a细长的，苗条的 3 crouch/krautf/.蹲下 ④entangle /in'tx0g/.使…维绕，纠缠于某物中） antler /aentla/n.鹿角，茸角 ⑥underrate/ndb'Teit/n低估，估计过低，看轻 ·187 Aesops Fables (Selections) 一五九燕子和乌鸦 燕子和乌鸦都争说自己的羽毛胜过对方，乌鸦说，“你的羽毛在春天固 然很漂亮，但我的羽毛足可为我御寒过冬。”一句话结束了这场争论。 不能共患难的朋友不值得交往。 CLIX The Swallow and the Crow The Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying,"Your feathers are all very well in the spring,but mine protect me against the winter. Fair weather friends are not worth much. ·188·