狐狸与葡萄 | The Fox and the Grapes

有声英语儿童童话故事 伊索寓言 狐狸和葡萄One hot summer’s day a Fox wasstrolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening ona vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the thing to quench mythirst,” quoth he.Drawing back a few paces, he tooka run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One,Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he triedafter the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away withhis nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.”It is easy to despise what you cannot get.