英語寓言歌手：蠍子和烏龜

摘要：烏龜和蠍子建立了深厚的友誼，他們結伴同行，誰也離不開誰。一天，這對形影不離的朋友覺得應該改變一下生活環境，於是就決定一起旅行。

A Tortoise and Scorpion had contracted a great intimacy, and bound themselves with such tiesof friendship, that the one could not live without the other.

One day these inseparable companions, finding themselves obliged to change their habitation,traveled together; but in their meeting with a large and deep river, the Scorpion making a stop,said to the Tortoise:

烏龜和蠍子建立了深厚的友誼，他們結伴同行，誰也離不開誰。

一天，這對形影不離的朋友覺得應該改變一下生活環境，於是就決定一起旅行。在路上，他們遇到一條又寬又深的河流。蠍子停下來，對烏龜說：

“My dear friend, you are well provided for what we see before us, but how shAll I get over thiswater?”

“親愛的朋友，你能順利渡過前面這條河，可我怎麼過得去呢?”

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“Never trouble yourself, my dear friend, for that,”replied the Tortoise,“I will carry you upon myback secure from all danger.”

“不要急，親愛的朋友，”烏龜說，“我揹着你過河，這樣就不會有任何危險了。”

On this, the Scorpion, without hesitation, got upon the back of the Tortoise, who immediatelytook water and began to swim. But he had hardly got half way across the river, when he hearda terrible rumbling upon his back; which made him ask the Scorpion what he was doing.

就這樣，蠍子毫不猶豫地爬到烏龜的背上，烏龜立即跳入水中朝對岸游去。但當烏龜游到一半時，他聽到背上一陣刺耳的聲音，於是就問蠍子在幹什麼。

“Doing!”replied the Scorpion,“why, I am whetting my sting, to try whether I can bore thishorny cuirass of yours, that covers yours flesh like a shield, from all injuries.”

“幹什麼!”蠍子回答道，“哦，我在磨我的刺，看我能否刺穿你那如盾牌般堅固、使你免受傷害的盔甲。”

“Oh, ungrateful wretch,”cried the Tortoise,“wouldst thou, at a time when I am giving thee sucha demonstration of my friendship, wouldst thou at such a time, pierce with thy venomoussting, the defense that Nature has given me, and take away my life? It is well, however, I haveit in my power both to save myself and reward thee as thou deservest. ”

“哦，忘恩負義的傢伙!”烏龜叫道，“我對你這麼好，你卻企圖用毒刺刺穿大自然賜予我的盔甲，想要我的命嗎?好吧，我有能力拯救自己並讓你受到懲罰。”

So saying, he sunk his back to some depth under water, threw off the Scorpion, and left him topay with his life for his monstrous ingratitude.

說着，烏龜沉入水底，拋開蠍子，讓他爲自己的忘恩負義付出生命的代價。

　　交友不慎的狗

Once there was a fox who lived in a jungle He always Went to look for food in a village that wasnot far from where he lived One day, the fox went to a village near the jungle.

森林裏住着一隻狐狸。它時常跑到附近的村子裏偷吃的。有一天，這隻狐狸悄悄地溜進森林附近的村子裏來。

There he met a dog who was guarding his master's house. "How are you, mV friend?" asked thefox. "I'm fine, thank You," said the dog. "Why do you sit here?

它碰見 了一隻看門狗.“你好嗎，朋友7”狐狸問。 “我很好，謝謝。¨狗迴應道。“你爲什麼呆在這兒呢?

Let's go and look for some food, "said the fox. The dog felt that all this while his master hadnot given him enough food to eat. "Where shall we go?" asked the dog.

走吧，我們一起去找好吃的吧。狐狸說狗覺得可以，因爲它在主人家連飯都吃不飽。 狗問道：“那我們該去哪兒呢，

"Let's go and eat some chickens and ducks, "answered the fox. The dog was very happy tohear the fox's answer. He told the fox he preferred a chicken. "You can have that, but you musthelp me, " said the fox. "

“我們去抓些雞鴨來吃吧¨狐狸回答道狗聽狐狸這麼說，十分高興。它告訴狐狸它想要一隻雞¨你可以得到的，但你必須幫我”，狐狸說。¨好的。”

AII right, "replied the dog. The fox took the dog to a farm not far from there. The dog was veryeager to eat the chicken. "We can't go into the farm now," said the fox. "

狗回答道。於是狐狸帶着狗到了不遠處的一個農場裏。猗非常急切地想 屹雞。“我們現在還不能進去，¨狐狸說，

We must wait until it is dark. At night the farmer won't be able to see us "All right, " said thedog. That night, the fox and the dog entered the farm.

“我們得等天黑了才能摸進 去，晚上我們就不會被農夫發現了。" “那好的。”狗說到了晚上，狐狸和狗偷偷地潛入農場裏。

The dog was worried about being caught by the farmer. "Don't worry. I have stolen tenchickens before and I have never been caught, "said the fox."That was before, "Said the dog.

狗心裏忐忑不安， 非常擔心被農夫抓個正着。¨別擔心。我曾偷過他們的十多隻雞，從來沒被抓住過。”狐 狸說。 ¨那是以前的事，¨狗說，¨如果碰巧今晚被人發現怎麼辦?¨

"What will happen if the farmer sees us tonight? ""lf the farmer sees us, we'1l run away quickly, "said the fox. "How will I run“ he asked "I'm not Use to this place."

¨如果被人發現，我們就快快逃跑呀!¨狐狸說。¨我該往哪裏跑呢，”它問，¨我不熟悉這地方。¨

"You just have to run into the Jungle," replied the fox. "The farmer won’t chase are you in thejungle." "All right. I’ll do that," said the dog.

¨往森林裏跑就行啦!¨狐狸回答道，¨農場主不會到森林粵追 你的。"好吧，就聽你的。¨狗說。

At last they reached the chicken coop. They were quite unlucky that night. The fox and the dogboth fell into a trap set by the farmer. They cried out in fear.

最後，它們來到雞舍，那天晚上它們很不走運。狐狸和狗都 掉進了農場設置的陷阱裏，它們害怕得大叫起來。

The farmer heard their cries and he woke up from his sleep. "It must be that nasty fox, " saidthe farmer, getting up quickly.

它們的叫聲驚 醒了睡夢中的農場主。“肯定是狡猾的狐狸來了。”農場主說，並 快速起來，下牀點亮燈就去了雞舍。在陷阱裏，他發現了一隻狐 狸和一隻狗。

The farmer switched on the light and went to the chicken coop. He saw a fox and a dog in thetrap.

"哼!你自個兒來偷還不夠，還帶了個朋友來。

"Oh, it isn't enough that you came to steal, but you also brought along a friend," said thefarmer. "You are both equally bad" The farmer took a piece of wood and beat that fox and thedog. Then the farmer told his wife, "The dog became friends with the fox. Because of that habecame a thief tool"

"農場主說，你們兩個都不是好東西!農場主拿起一根木棍狠狠地朝狐狸和狗的身上打去。過後，農場主對他的妻子說："這隻看門狗能交上狐狸這種朋友，是因爲它自己也變成了小偷。”