英语翻译求伊索寓言 the cock and the pearl 的中文翻译a cock was once strutt
英语翻译
求伊索寓言 the cock and the pearl 的中文翻译
a cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw."ho ho"quoth he,"that's for me,"and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw.what did it turn out to be but a pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard?"you may be a treasure"quoth master cock"to men that prize you,but for me i would rather have a single barley-corn than a peckof pearls." precious things are for those that can prize them.