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老鼠和青蛙是朋友。每天早上，青蛙都会跳离池塘去拜访他住在树边的朋友，中午再回来。 老鼠很乐意跟这个朋友在一起，却没有意识到他正慢慢变成自己的敌人。青蛙觉得自己很不受重视。因为虽然他每天都去看他的朋友老鼠，对方却从来没想过来看他。 一天，青蛙觉得自己已经受够了侮辱。要离开老鼠家的时候，他把一根绳子的一端绕在自己腿上，另一端系在老鼠的尾巴上。他蹦蹦跳跳地走了，后面拖看青蛙跳入池塘深处。老鼠试图摆脱困境但是徒然,膨胀的尸体漂到水面上。 一只鹰看到了漂在水面上的老鼠。他猛扑下来,抓住老鼠，青蛙也被拖出了水面。他拼命地要逃脱但是徒劳。鹰很快让他停止了挣扎。 在非洲，有这样一句谚语：“对付敌人的陷阱不要挖„ Friends A mouse and a frog were friends. Every morning the frog would hop out of his pond and go to visit his friend who lived in a hole in the side of a tree. He would return home at noon. The mouse delighted in his friend's company unaware that the friend was slowly turn¬ing into an enemy. The frog felt slighted because though he visited the mouse everyday, the mouse on his part, had never made an attempt to visit him. One day he felt he had been humiliated enough. When it was time for him to take leave of the mouse, he tied one end of a string around his own leg，tied the other end to the mouse’s tail, and hopped away, dragging the hapless mouse behind him. The frog dived deep into the pond. The mouse tried to free himself but couldn't, and soon drowned. His bloated body floated to the top. A hawk saw the mouse floating on the pond’s surface. He swooped down, and grabbing the mouse in his talons, flew to the branch of a nearby tree. The frog, of course, was hauled out of the water too. He desperately tried to free himself, but couldn't and the hawk soon put an end to his struggles. In Africa they have a saying, “Don't dig too deep a pit for your enemy, you may fall into it yourself. |
