狗和它的影子

　　The Dog And The Shadow 狗和它的影子

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

　　譯文：一條狗嘴里叼塊肉,來到一座橋上.它看見水里有自己的影子, 以為是另一條嘴里也叼著一塊比自己那塊肉大一倍的狗.它忙丟下自己嘴里的那塊肉,猛力地攻擊水里的狗.試圖去搶它的肉.結果,它兩塊肉都得不到. 因為那只是一個影子,它自己的影子而已.真正的肉也被水沖走了.