One hot summer’s day a fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the thing to quench my thirst,” quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning around again with a one, two, three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again, he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I’m sure they are sour.”
- It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
一个炎热的夏天,一只狐狸散步穿过果园,它走到了一大串成熟的葡萄下面。葡萄已经熟了,葡萄藤经过修剪蔓延在高高的树枝上。“正是可以解渴的好东西啊,”狐狸自言自语到。退后了几步,狐狸助跑起跳,就差一点点了。转过身去,1,2,3,狐狸又使劲跳起来,但是并没有比上次更近。一次又一次,狐狸努力着,为了那一口诱人的葡萄,但最后不得不放弃。狐狸昂首挺胸的离开了,边走边说,“这些葡萄肯定是酸的。”
——有时候,很容易鄙视那些我们得不到的东西。