老鹰和甲虫的寓言故事

【老鹰和甲虫的寓言故事】

一只鹰正在奋力追一只兔子，而兔子则拼命奔跑，一筹莫展地不知该到哪里寻求帮助。这时，她恰巧看见一只甲虫，便向他求救。于是，当老鹰过来时，甲虫便警告她不要碰那只兔子。老鹰根本没有把小小的甲虫放在眼里，因为它实在太不起眼了，终于还是抓住兔子并吃了她。甲虫一直没有忘记这件事，经常关注着老鹰的巢，只要老鹰一下蛋，他便悄悄地爬上去，把老鹰蛋滚出巢来摔碎它。后来，老鹰十分担心再丢失自己的蛋，便跑到朱庇特(鹰的特别守护神)那里，请求给自己一个安全的地方生儿育女。于是，朱庇特让她在自己的膝上下蛋。然而，甲虫也注意到了此事，就做了一个和鹰蛋差不多大小的泥球，然后飞上去，把它扔到了朱庇特的膝盖上。朱庇特一看是泥球，马上站起身来抖擞自己的长袍，浑然忘记了膝上还有老匡下的蛋，无意间把蛋也抖落了，老鹰的蛋像之前那样摔了个粉碎。据说，从那以后，在甲虫出现的时节，老鹰就再也不下蛋了。

【老鹰和甲虫的故事寓意】

老鹰和甲虫这篇寓言故事要告诉我们的是：即便对手是强老，弱者有时也会想方设法地报仇雪耻。

【老鹰和甲虫的英文版】

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．