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有一天，牡鹿来到河边喝水。他看到水中的倒影时，不禁赞叹起来：“我头上的鹿角是多么俊秀啊！它让我看起来很英俊呢。” 牡鹿再转个身子瞧瞧。他觉得自己的脚又细又长，一点都不好看。“真可惜，我的脚太瘦长了。”牡鹿自言自语说，“为何它们不能像鹿角一样完美呢？ 如果我能从头到脚都完美的话，那我就是动物中最好看的一只了。唔，或许我可借助后天的努力来弥补这个缺陷啊！ ” 没料此刻，一头狮子出现了。牡鹿吓得拔腿就跑，狮子在后紧追。由于牡鹿的腿比狮子的长，所以他能轻易地和狮子保持着一段安全的距离。可是跑进树林时，他的角被矮的树枝缠住了，无法挣脱。此时，狮子也追了上来，轻而易举地将他捉住。 临终前，牡鹿十分懊悔地说：“天啊！我是如何地欺骗自己啊！我轻视助我脱险的这双脚，却以置我于死地的角为荣。” 故事哲理： 美丽的东西不一定有价值，而真正有价值的东西却常因不耀眼而受到轻视；因此人对与生俱来的优缺点应重新审视，你最不满意的特点，有可能对你最有帮助。 The Dissatisfied Deer One day, a deer was quenching his thirst in the river when he looked at his reflection in the water. He started admiring himself. “How wonderful my antlers are! They make me look so handsome!” The deer turned around and found that his legs were too slim and long, and not attractive at all. “Oh，why couldn’t my legs be as beautiful as my antlers?” he thought sadly. “My legs are too weak and thin. I wish I could do something to make them look better.” When the deer was busy with his thoughts, a lion came to drink at the river. When he saw the deer, he stopped and crept up slowly. Just as the lion was about to pounce on him, the deer saw the lion. He leapt to the side for safety, and then ran towards the forest as fast as he could. For some distance there was open ground with hardly any trees. The deer’s legs carried him swiftly across the field. In a short while he was far ahead of the lion. He soon came to the edge of the forest and dashed in. He thought he would be safe among the trees, but he was wrong. As he ran through the forest, his beautiful and branched antlers became tangled in the branches of a tree. He was trapped. The deer pulled and pushed as hard as he could but he could not free his antlers. He could not escape the lion now. In a short while the lion reached the deer. He pounced on the deer and bit him. “Oh，what a fool I was!，，the deer wept as he lay dying. “I hated my long and skinny legs but they were the ones that carried me to safety. Whereas, my beautiful antlers which I was proud of have caused me my death.” Beautiful things are not necessarily valuable；valuable things are often neglected because they appear plain. |
