陳蕙雅思教材 - 伊索寓言 (The Dog and the Shadow)

The Dog and the Shadow 狗和自已的影子

A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with apiece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it forthat of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. Heimmediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get hislarger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in thewater, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.

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狗叼著肉渡過一條河。他看見水中自己的倒影，還以為是另一條狗叼著一塊更大的肉。想到這裡，他決定要去搶那塊更大的肉。於是，他撲到水中搶那塊更大的。結果，他兩塊肉都沒得到，水中那塊本來就不存在，原有那塊又被河水沖走了。
這故事適用於貪婪的人。