Aesop’s Fables: The Seaside Travelers 伊索寓言：海邊的旅行者

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Aesop’s Fables: The Seaside Travelers

伊索寓言：海邊的旅行者

 

The Seaside Travelers

 

 

  SOME TRAVELERS, journeying along the seashore, climbed to the summit of a tall cliff, and looking over the sea, saw in the

distance what they thought was a large ship.  They waited in the hope of seeing it enter the harbor, but as the object on which they looked was driven nearer to shore by the wind, they found that it could at the most be a small boat, and not a ship.  When however it reached the beach, they discovered that it was only a

large faggot of sticks, and one of them said to his companions, "We have waited for no purpose, for after all there is nothing to

see but a load of wood." 

 

 

        Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

 

 

 the seaside travelers

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 1q What did the travelers do? 






Ans= climbed to the summit of a tall cliff


2q What did they see?








 Ans=they thought it was a large ship.



3q What did they wait in hope of seeing? 










Ans= it enter the harbor.



4q What did they find out? 








Ans= it was a small boat, not a ship



5q When they reached the beach, what did they see? 









Ans= a large faggot/bundle of sticks



Bq What's the moral? 








Ans= our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities


fs= What does the moral mean? Our hopes alone in life are
 better than the truth. If we want too much, we will fail. Reality 
is not as generous as our dreams. Enough said.

 








 


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