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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and sayin…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A SNAKE, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager’s infant son. G…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be re…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. A sudden puff of wind blew off his hat and wig, at which a loud laugh…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight. When he reached it, he …
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A HEIFER saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being c…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A LION, growing old, lay sick in his cave. All the beasts came to visit their king, except the Fox. The Wolf therefore…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A THIEF came in the night to break into a house. He brought with him several slices of meat in order to pacify the Hou…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A GNAT settled on the horn of a Bull, and sat there a long time. Just as he was about to fly off, he made a buzzing no…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A MONKEY once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them all by his performance that they elected him th…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
AN OX drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death. The Mother coming up, and mi…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
TWO SOLDIERS traveling together were set upon by a Robber. The one fled away; the other stood his ground and defended …
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trun…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A SHIPWRECKED MAN, having been cast upon a certain shore, slept after his buffetings with the deep. After a while he a…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan’s splendid wh…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
WHEN A FOX who had never yet seen a Lion, fell in with him by chance for the first time in the forest, he was so frigh…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A BLIND MAN was accustomed to distinguishing different animals by touching them with his hands. The whelp of a Wolf wa…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A BEE from Mount Hymettus, the queen of the hive, ascended to Olympus to present Jupiter some honey fresh from her com…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling. The owner went up after hi…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A WEASEL, inactive from age and infirmities, was not able to catch mice as he once did. He therefore rolled himself in…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
ALL the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from that common share which they each had in the affairs of mankind; f…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A GOATHERD, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them …
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: “Though you be swift as …
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A BITCH, ready to whelp, earnestly begged a shepherd for a place where she might litter. When her request was granted,…
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