把农夫与蛇的故事翻译为英语.

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把农夫与蛇的故事翻译为英语.

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1.伊索寓言原版：
The Farmer and the Snake
ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold.He had compassion on it,and taking it up,placed it in his bosom.The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth,and resuming its natural instincts,bit its benefactor,inflicting on him a mortal wound."Oh," cried the Farmer with his last breath,"I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel."
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
2.《农夫和蛇》的故事大家可能都听过.但是用英语,我们怎么讲述这个故事呢?这则小故事很适合演讲的时候使用.
It was a cold winter evening,an old man had don his work and was going home from the fields.
On his way he saw some thing on the ground.He looked at it and found it was a snake.
It was not dead,but it couldn't move because it was so cold.
"Poor thing," the man said,"I must try to save your life."
"He picked it up and looked for a warm place to put it in.
But how could he find one in such cold weather?So he decided to put the snake inside his clothes,right nest to his heart.
A few minutes later,the snake came back to life and began to move.
When it had become strong enough.it gave the man a deadly bite.
He killed it and went on.When he got back,he was very ill and had to lie down.
He knew he was dying.