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1205 Aesop's Fables (week13)
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  • Misery loves company. (禍不單行。)
     
  • When a neighbor's house is on fire, you better look at yours.(見賢思齊,見不賢而內自省也
    。)
     
  •  There is always someone who is worse off you than. 


  • The Wolf and the Shepherds    by Aesop
    A WOLF, passing by, saw some Shepherds in a hut eating for their dinner a haunch of mutton. Approaching them, he said: What a clamor you would raise, if I were to do as you are doing!
    Moral:
    Men are too apt to condemn in others the very things they practice themselves.

     
  • Folklore, Myth and Legend
    1. Aesop's Fables
    2. The Brothers Grimm
    3. Hans Christian Anderson

     
  • Fable:
    Fable is a literary genre. A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities such as verbal communication), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.
    A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of humankind.

     
  • The Return of the Prodigal Son (浪子回頭):
    The Prodigal Son, also known as Two Sons, Lost Son and The Running Father is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament. According to the Gospel of Luke (Luke 15:11-32), a father gives the younger of his two sons his inheritance before he dies. The younger son, after wasting his fortune (the word 'prodigal' means 'wastefully extravagant'), goes hungry during a famine. He then repents and returns home, where the father holds a feast to celebrate his return. The older son refuses to participate, stating that in all the time the son has worked for the father, he did not even give him a goat to celebrate with his friends. His father reminds the older son that everything the father has is the older son's, but that they should still celebrate the return of the younger son as he has come back to them. It is the third and final part of a cycle on redemption, following the Parable of the Lost Sheep and the Parable of the Lost Coin.

     
  • The Wolf and the Crane
    The Wolf and the Crane  by Aesop
    Expect no reward when serving the wicked.
    A WOLF, having a bone stuck in his throat, hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his throat and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone, and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: Why, you have surely already a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.
    Moral:
    In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
     
  • The Ass Eating Thistles   by Aesop  (Ass 愚笨的意思,thistle很刺的植物)
    An Ass was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, in time of harvest, he was carrying into the field for his master and the reapers to dine upon. By the way he met with a fine large Thistle, and, being very hungry, began to mumble(擬聲字) it; and while he was doing so he entered into this reflection: How many greedy epicures would think themselves happy, amidst such a variety of delicate viands as I now carry! But to me this bitter, prickly Thistle is more savory and relishing than the most exquisite and sumptuous banquet. Let others choose what they may for food, but give me, above everything, a fine juicy thistle like this and I will be content.
    Moral:
    Everyone to his taste: one man's meat is another man's poison, and one mans poison is another man's meat; what is rejected by one person may be valued very highly by another.

     
  • Today ( by John Denver)
    I can't be contented with yesterday's glory
    I can't live on promises winter to spring
    Today is my moment and now is my story
    I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing

     
  • What is rejected by one person may be valued very highly by another.
    (各花入人眼。)

     
  • the Ass was at his old tricks again 故技重施

     
  • be ashamed to 覺得丟臉
    e.g. She was ashamed to tell anyone that she had fallen in love with him.  

     
  • summon to a general meeting 召開大會

     
  • dispense with=get rid of
    e.g. Automation has largely dispensed with the need for manual checking. 

     
  • The Hare and the Tortoise  by Aesop
    The Hare, trusting to his native swiftness, cared little about the race, and lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep.
    A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise. The latter, laughing, said: Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race. The Hare, deeming her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course, and fix the goal.
    On the day appointed for the race, they started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, trusting to his native swiftness, cared little about the race, and lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
    Moral:
    Perseverance is surer than swiftness.

     
  • trust my sheep to a wolf 所託非人
    the boy crying wolf 放羊的孩子

     
  • You are just sour grapes!
    你只是忌妒我而已! 

     
  • 1. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
    Peter Peter pumpkin eater,
    Had a wife and couldn't keep her!
    He put her in a pumpkin shell,
    And there he kept her very well!
    2. What did Mary have
    Mary had a little lamb,
    its fleece was white as snow;
    And everywhere that Mary went,
    the lamb was sure to go.
    3. What did Peter Piper pick
    Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
    A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
    Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
    4. Where did Jack and Jill go
    Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
    Jack fell down and broke his crown
    And Jill came tumbling after.
    Up got Jack, and home did trot As fast as he could caper
    He went to bed and bound his head
    With vinegar and brown paper.
    5. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
    There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
    She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
    She gave them some broth without any bread;
    And whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
    6. Little Miss Muffet
    Little Miss Muffet
    Sat on a tuffet,
    Eating her curds and whey;
    Along came a spider,
    Who sat down beside her,
    And frightened Miss Muffet away.
    7. Little Bo Peep
    Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
    And can't tell where to find them;
    Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
    Bringing their tails behind them.
    8. Georgy Porgy
    Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie,
    Kissed the girls and made them cry.
    When the boys came out to play,
    Georgy Porgy ran away
    9. Wee Willie Winkie
    Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
    Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown;
    Rapping at the window, crying through the lock,
    "Are the children all in bed, for now it's eight o'clock?"
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