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英语小故事带翻译欣赏 The Travellers and the Bear Two men travelling through a forest together promised to help each other whatever danger threated them. They had not gone far when a bear rushed at them from some bushes. One man was a good climber, and quickly climbed a nearby tree, but the other, seeing that he had no chance alone against the bear, fell flat on his back, and pretended to be dead. The Bear came up to him, sniffed at him, and thicking him dead went off into the wood again without hurting him. When he had gone, the other traveller came down from his tree, and smilingly asked his companion what the Bear had said to him. For I could see, he said, that he put his mouth close to your ear. He told me to tell you, replied the other,that you were a great coward, and that in future I should not trust those who make fine promises, but will no stand by their friends in danger. Dont trust fine promises unless you are sure of the person who makes them. The Bat and the Weasel Bat falling upon the ground was caught by a weasel, of whom he earnestly besought his life. The weasel refused, saying, that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus saved his life. Shortly afterwards the bat again fellon the ground, and was carght by another weasel, whom he likewise entreated恳求 not to eat him. The weasel said that he had a specialhostility to mice. The bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat; and thus a second time escaped. It is wise to turn circumstances to good account. Ant and grasshopper On a cold, frosty day an ant was dragging out some of the corn which he had laid up in the summertime, to dry it. A grasshopper, half perished with hunger, besought the ant to give him a morsel of to preserve his life. What were you doing, said the ant, this last summer? Oh, said the grasshopper, I was not idle. I kept singing all the su