Aesop’s Fables: The Scorpion and the Frog 伊索寓言：蠍子和青蛙

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Aesop’s Fables: The Scorpion and the Frog

伊索寓言：蠍子和青蛙

6/22

The Scorpion and the Frog

 

  A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the

scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The

frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion

says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

 

  The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,

the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of

paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,

but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

 

           Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

 

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1q Which 2 animals are in the story? 

Ans= the scorpion & the frog

2q Where were they? 

Ans= on the bank of a stream.

3q What did the frog ask?

 Ans="how do I know you won't kill me?" 

4q What did the scorpion say? 

Ans= "because if I do, I will die."

5q Did the scorpion kill the frog midstream? 

Ans= yes

Bq.What's the moral? 

Ans= Replied the scorpion, "It's my nature."

 

fs= the moral--- the scorpion said, "It's my nature."  - which means, I can't help it. It's what I do, even if it kills me.So the scorpion killed the frog and himself. He might have gone against his nature by going across the stream and not harming the frog.