把农夫与蛇的故事翻译为英语.

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1.伊索寓言原版:
The Farmer and the Snake

ONE WINTER a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. "Oh," cried the Farmer with his last breath, "I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel."

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

2.《农夫和蛇》的故事大家可能都听过。但是用英语,我们怎么讲述这个故事呢?这则小故事很适合演讲的时候使用。

It was a cold winter evening, an old man had don his work and was going home from the fields.

On his way he saw some thing on the ground. He looked at it and found it was a snake.

It was not dead,but it couldn't move because it was so cold.

"Poor thing," the man said, "I must try to save your life."

"He picked it up and looked for a warm place to