狐狸与葡萄的故事

One hot summer's day a fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch."Just thething to quench my thirst,"quoth he.Drawing back a few paces,he took a run and a jump,and just missed the bunch.Turing around again with a one,two,three,he jumped up,but with no greater success.Again and again, he tried after the tempting morsel,but at last had to give it up,and walked away with his nose in the air,saying:"I'm sure they are sour." -It is easy to despise what you cannot get. 一个炎热的夏天，一只狐狸散步穿过果园，它走到了一大串成熟的葡萄下面。葡萄已经熟了，葡萄藤经过修剪蔓延在高高的树枝上。“正是可以解渴的好东西啊，”狐狸自言自语到。退后了几步，狐狸助跑起跳，就差一点点了。转过身去，1，2，3，狐狸又使劲跳起来，但是并没有比上次更近。一次又一次，狐狸努力着，为了那一口诱人的葡萄，但最后不得不放弃。狐狸昂首挺胸的离开了，边走边说，这些葡萄肯定是酸的。” 一有时候，很容易鄙视那些我们得不到的东西。