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英文寓言故事 One morning a countryman went to his gooses nest, and saw a yellow and glittering1 egg there. He took the egg home. To his delight, he found that it was an egg of pure gold. Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. The countryman became more and more greedy. He wanted to get all the gold at once, so he killed the goose, when he looked inside, he found nothing in its body. 一天早晨，一位农夫发现自家的鹅窝中有一只金灿灿的蛋。 他将蛋带回家，惊喜地发现这是一个金蛋。 此后，农夫每天都能得到一个金蛋。从此，他靠卖他的金蛋变得富有起来。 农夫变得越来越贪婪，他想一下子得到鹅肚子中所有的金蛋。于是他杀死了鹅，但是，鹅肚子中什么也没有。 A Woodman came into a forest to ask the Trees to give him a handle for Ax. It seemed so modest a request that the principal tree at once agreed to it, and it was settled among them that the plain, homely Ash should furnish what was wanted. No sooner had the Woodman fitted the staff to his purpose, than he began laying about him on all side. Felling the whole matter too late, whispered to the Cedar: The first concession has lost all. If we has not a sacrificed our humble neighbor, we might have yet stood for ages ourselves. 有一个樵夫来到森林里，要求树给他一跟斧柄，看来他的请求非常谦虚，立刻得到了树的首领的同意。他们决定由平凡而朴素的白杨树来提供所需要的东西。樵夫刚安好斧柄，就开始到处乱砍，森林里最高的树都砍倒了，树林现在察觉大势已去，就小声对衫树说：“第一次的让步已失去了一切。如果我们不牺牲我们的小小的邻居，我们自己还可以活无数年呢。” Once a man planned to build a terrace. He worked very hard and spent a lot of time digging and carrying earth. When the mound was almost completed and only one more basket of earth was needed, the man gave up. The terrace was never completed. This idiom means to fail to succeed for lack of final effort. 古时，有一个人要筑一座九仞八尺=一仞高的山。 他十分努力的建造这座山，并且花了很多时间挖土、搬运泥土。 终于当山快要建成的时候，几乎只差最后一篮子的泥土就行了的时候，他放弃了。 这座山便永远无法完工。 这个典故用以形容“离成功只有一步之遥，但最终失败告终”的意思。 A blind man is good at touching1 all the things. No matter whatever the thing is he can distinguish it as soon as he touches it A man brings a young wolf and lets him touch it. Having touched the animal,