寓言故事--猫和鱼的故事(英文版)

寓言故事--猫和鱼的故事（英文版）

A cat and a fish in a cylinder live together under an eaves.

一只猫和一条缸里的鱼，共同生活在一个屋檐下。

At first the owner liked them equally, but later the owner seemed to prefer the fish more, and often stood by the fish tank to look at it and feed it.

开始主人对它们的喜爱是平等的，可后来主人似乎更偏爱起鱼来，经常站在鱼缸边看着它，喂它食物。

The cat was angry at the owner's preference for fish and did not understand what he had done wrong, why he began to give them equal love, but now there is a deviation. It wants to know what makes the owner change his mind. So he went to the fish bowl and looked down in the fish bowl. He saw the fish wagging its tail at it.

主人对鱼的偏爱，猫很气愤，不明白自己做错了什么，为什么开始给它们的爱是平等的，可现在有了偏差。它很想知道是什么让主人改变了心意。于是它走到鱼缸前，趴在鱼缸往里望，看见鱼正冲着它猛摇尾巴。

The cat soon understood why the fish were so popular because it would beg for mercy.

猫一下子就明白鱼为什么那么受欢迎了，因为它会摇尾乞怜。

The cat thought to herself, "Hum! Bad things, please the master to win favor, I will destroy you, no master will like me again." So the cat scoop

out the fish and eat it.

猫心想“哼!坏东西，就靠讨好主人赢得主人喜欢，我要消灭你，没有你主人会重新喜欢上我的。”于是猫把鱼捞出来吃掉了。

When the owner came back, the cat scholar fish looked at his master with his tail. The master went over to see the fish. When he saw the fish was gone, he immediately thought of the cat.

等主人回来的时候，猫学者鱼的样子摇着尾巴去讨好主人。主人却越过它去看鱼，一见鱼没了，立刻就想到了猫。

The owner beat the cat out of the house because he lost the fish.

主人因为失去了鱼，把猫狠狠地揍一顿赶出了家门。

Cats also get retribution for their own bad hearts.

猫也因为自己的坏心眼得到了报应。