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经典哲理英语故事加翻译 The Ding family in the State of Song had no well of its own. someone in the family sometimes ?had to spend a whole day doing nothing but fetch water from a distance. To solve the trouble they had a well sunk in their courtyard. 宋国有一户姓丁的人家，由于自家没井，每次都要花一整天时间到很远的地方去担水。为了解决这个问题，他们决定自己在院子里凿一口井。 After the job was finished, they said to one another happily, “It seems with the sinking of the well ?one more person is added to our family.” 井挖好了，他们高兴地逢人就说：“有了这口井，田里也就多增加了一个劳动力，再也不用费神老远去担水了。” One of Ding’s friends heard of the remark and passed the word from the friend to the friend and yet to another, until the story ran as the follow words, “The Dings had a well sunk and found a man inside!” 丁家的一个朋友听到了这些，就把这话说给别人听，结果一传十，十传百，开始的一句话就变成了“丁家凿了一口井，在井里发现了一个人。” When the Duke of Song heard the tale, he sent for Ding to inquire into the matter. With the sinking of the well it is as if your obedient servant has had the help of a man,” explained ?Ding to the Duke. “It doesn’t mean that I actually found a man in the well.” 宋国听到这个传闻后，就派人去召开了丁，问他这是怎么回事。丁向宋王解释说：“凿一口井，就好比你忠实的仆人又获得了一个帮手，不是说井底真的有一个人。” Many ages had now passed away since the phoenix had been seen in the world. At last he again appeared. Imme-diately all the different kinds of animals, both birds and beasts, flocked around him. 地球上凤凰已是很久以前的事了。凤凰再次归来，飞禽走兽立刻都簇拥在它周围。 Astonished at his beauty, they stared and admired, and broke out into great praise, but in a short time, the wisest and most prudent among them began to look upon him with an eye of sympathy, and they sighed, “O unhappy phoenix! Fate has been hard to him. He has neither sweetheart nor friend. He will never know the pleasure of loving, or of being loved.” 众禽兽注视着凤凰，为她的美貌而惊诧，羡慕不已，抒发出一片赞叹之声。但不久，那些最聪明、最谨慎的动物开始用同情的目光看待凤凰。他们发出感慨：“凤凰真是不幸啊，命运竟如此不济。他既无伴侣，也无朋友。他永远享受不到爱与被爱的快乐。” A philosophical mouse spoke loudly in praise of nature’s goodness for having made the mice such particular objects of her concern and prote