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英语故事伊索寓言:虚荣的八哥

发布时间：2009-06-19 编辑：查字典英语网小编

A jackdaw, as vain and conceited as jackdaw could be, picked up the feathers which some peacocks had shed, stuck them amongst his own, and despising his old companions, introduced himself with the greatest assurance into a flock of those beautiful birds .They, instantly detecting the intruder, stripped him of his borrowed plumes, and falling upon him with their beaks sent him about his business .The unlucky jackdaw, sorely punished and deeply sorrowing, betook himself to his former companions, and would have flocked with them again as if nothing had happened .But they， recollecting what airs he had given himself, drummed him out of their society, while one of those whom he had so lately despised, read him this lecture: "Had you been contented with what nature made you, you would have escaped the chastisement of you r betters and also the contempt of you r equals."

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英语故事 伊索寓言:虚荣的八哥

发布时间：2009-06-19 编辑：查字典英语网小编

英语故事伊索寓言:虚荣的八哥