背誦為王第一冊第36課：The Dog and His Shadow “狗和他的影子”
It happened that a dog had some meat that he wanted to eat at home. On his way home he met a river. As he looked down, he saw his shadow in the water. 'Just look!' said he to himself. 'That dog down there has some meat, too. If I could get it away from him, I would really eat well tonight!' With this thought, he made a snap at the other dog's meat. And as he did, his own meat fell into the water. So then he had nothing at all. Then he saw that the other dog had lost his meat, too. 'That is as it should be!' thought he. 'For I saw him trying to take my meat away from me.' By wanting to have everything, he has lost everything he had!
碰巧狗有一些肉，他想回到家后再吃。回家的路上，他遇到了一條河。當(dāng)他往河里看時(shí)，在水里他看到了他的影子。 “看?。　彼麑ψ约赫f，“下面的那只狗也有一些肉。如果我能從他那里把肉弄過來，那我今晚就可以美餐一頓了！”帶著這個(gè)想法，他朝另一只狗的肉撲去。當(dāng)他這么做時(shí)，他自己的肉掉進(jìn)了水里。所以他就什么都沒有了。 然后，他看到另一只狗的肉也沒了。“活該！”他想，“因?yàn)槲铱吹剿霃奈疫@里搶走我的肉?！?什么都想要，卻失去了原來所擁有的！