1.驴和它的主人
The Ass and His Masters
有头驴给草药贩子干活,觉得很苦,就请求朱庇特给它换主人.朱庇特把它换给制瓦工,驴觉得更苦了,请求再换.最后朱庇特就让驴到皮匠那里,驴想到皮匠会剥了它的皮,更后悔了.
n Ass, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master. Jupiter, after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he had heavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, he petitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he be sold to a tanner. The Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands, and noting his master's occupation, said, groaning: "It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him."
He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.
2.驴 和 青 蛙
The Ass and the Frogs
驴驮着木料,不小心摔倒在池塘里,就大声叫起来.青蛙听见了,对驴说,在池塘里摔了一跤,没什么大不了的.
n Ass, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As he was crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled and fell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groaned heavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation, and said, "What would you do if you had to live here always as we do, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water "
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
3.驴 和 买 主
The Ass and His Purchaser
一个人在买驴前,先把它牵回家试试.结果发现这只驴喜欢他家里一只好吃懒做的驴,于是他断定这只驴也是好吃懒做一类的,就不买了.
Man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out the animal before he bought him. He took the Ass home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which the new animal left all the others and at once joined the one that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all.

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