农夫和夜莺

类别：智慧

农夫抓住夜莺换取了三句忠告，却在夜莺的谎言试探下立刻领悟了轻信与贪念的教训。

时长 50 秒 · 语速 176 wpm

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A farmer lay awake one summer night, listening to a nightingale sing. 一个夏天的晚上，有个农夫躺着睡不着，听着一只夜莺唱歌。

The song was so beautiful that the next evening he set a trap and caught her. 歌声实在太美了，第二天傍晚他就设了个陷阱把它抓住了。

"Now you'll sing for me every night," he said. 他说：“这下你每天晚上都得给我唱歌了。”

"We nightingales never sing in a cage," she answered. 夜莺回答道：“我们夜莺在笼子里是绝不唱歌的。”

"Then I'll eat you." “那我就把你吃了。”

"Please don't. “求求你别吃我，

Let me go, 放我走吧，

and I'll give you three pieces of advice worth far more than my little body." 我会给你三句忠告，价值可比我这小身板高多了。”

He opened his hand, and she flew up to a branch. 他张开手，夜莺便飞上了一根树枝。

"First, never believe a prisoner's promise. “第一，永远别信俘虏的承诺。

Second, keep what you have. 第二，守好你已经拥有的东西。

Third, don't cry over what's lost forever." 第三，彻底失去的东西，就别再去哭泣后悔了。”

Then she laughed. 说完，它笑了起来。

"By the way, “顺便说一句，

there's a pearl inside me as big as an egg." 我肚子里可有一颗鸡蛋那么大的珍珠呢。”

The farmer groaned. 农夫懊恼地叫了一声。

Then he stopped. 紧接着，他愣住了。

A pearl that size, inside a bird that small? 那么大一颗珍珠，能在这么小的一只鸟肚子里？

He had been given three good rules, 人家才刚给了他三条金玉良言，

and he had nearly broken all of them in a minute. 结果不到一分钟，他差点全给破了。