【寓言】The Farmer and the Stork(有声)
时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:有声阅读空间
The Farmer and the Stork 1
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plow 2 lands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching 3 the Farmer to spare his life.
"Pray save me, Master," he said, "and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane."
The Farmer laughed aloud and said, "It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company."
Birds of a feather flock together.
- A Fox invited a long-beaked Stork to have dinner with him.狐狸请长嘴鹳同他一起吃饭。
- He is very glad that his wife's going to get a visit from the stork.他为她的妻子将获得参观鹳鸟的机会感到非常高兴。
- At this time of the year farmers plow their fields.每年这个时候农民们都在耕地。
- We will plow the field soon after the last frost.最后一场霜过后,我们将马上耕田。
- She clung to her father, beseeching him for consent. 她紧紧挨着父亲,恳求他答应。 来自辞典例句
- He casts a beseeching glance at his son. 他用恳求的眼光望着儿子。 来自辞典例句