老鷹和甲蟲的寓言故事

【老鷹和甲蟲的寓言故事】

一隻鷹正在奮力追一隻兔子，而兔子則拼命奔跑，一籌莫展地不知該到哪裏尋求幫助。這時，她恰巧看見一隻甲蟲，便向他求救。於是，當老鷹過來時，甲蟲便警告她不要碰那隻兔子。老鷹根本沒有把小小的甲蟲放在眼裏，因爲它實在太不起眼了，終於還是抓住兔子並吃了她。甲蟲一直沒有忘記這件事，經常關注着老鷹的巢，只要老鷹一下蛋，他便悄悄地爬上去，把老鷹蛋滾出巢來摔碎它。後來，老鷹十分擔心再丟失自己的蛋，便跑到朱庇特(鷹的特別守護神)那裏，請求給自己一個安全的地方生兒育女。於是，朱庇特讓她在自己的膝上下蛋。然而，甲蟲也注意到了此事，就做了一個和鷹蛋差不多大小的泥球，然後飛上去，把它扔到了朱庇特的膝蓋上。朱庇特一看是泥球，馬上站起身來抖擻自己的長袍，渾然忘記了膝上還有老匡下的蛋，無意間把蛋也抖落了，老鷹的蛋像之前那樣摔了個粉碎。據說，從那以後，在甲蟲出現的時節，老鷹就再也不下蛋了。

【老鷹和甲蟲的故事寓意】

老鷹和甲蟲這篇寓言故事要告訴我們的是：即便對手是強老，弱者有時也會想方設法地報仇雪恥。

【老鷹和甲蟲的英文版】

THE EAGLE AND THE BEETLE

An Eagle was chasing a hare，which was running for dear life and was at her wits’end to know where to turn for help．Presently she espied a Beetle，and begged it to aid her．So when the Eagle came up the Beetle warned her not to touch the hare，which was under its protection．But the Eagle never noticed the Beetle because it was SO small，seized the hare and ate her up．The Beetle never forgot this，and used to keep an eye on the Eagle’S nest，and whenever the Eagle laid an egg it climbed up and rolled it out of the nest and broke it．At last the Eagle got SO worried over the loss of her eggs that she went up to Jupiter，who is the special protector of Eagles，and begged him to give her a safe place to nest in：So he let her lay her eggs in his lap．But the Beetle noticed this and made a ball of dirt the size of an Eagle’S egg，and flew up and deposited it in Jupiter’S lap．When Jupiter saw the dirt，he stood up to shake it out of his robe，and，forgetting about the eggs，he shook them out too，and they were broken just as before．Ever since then，they say,Eagles never lay their eggs at the season when Beetles are about．

The weak will sometimes find ways to avenge an insult，even upon the strong．