One day a little mouse was running along when he happened to run across the paws of a big sleeping lion. This woke the lion – and the lion did not like to be woken up before he was ready! The lion was very angry at being disturbed, and he grabbed the mouse in his big paw. He was just about to swallow him when the mouse cried out,
“Please, kind sir, I didn’t mean to disturb you. If you will let me go, I will be grateful to you forever. And if I can, I will help you some day.”
The lion laughed a big laugh. How, he thought, could such a little creature as a mouse ever help so great a creature as a lion? All the same, the lion decided to let the mouse go.
Not long after, the mouse was running along when he heard a great roaring nearby. He went closer to see what the trouble was, and there he saw the lion, caught in a hunter’s net. The mouse remembered his promise to the lion, and he began gnawing the ropes of the net, and kept gnawing until he had made a hole big enough so the lion could get free.
Moral: Little friends may be great friendsOne day a little mouse was running along when he happened to run across the paws of a big sleeping lion. This woke the lion – and the lion did not like to be woken up before he was ready! The lion was very angry at being disturbed, and he grabbed the mouse in his big paw. He was just about to swallow him when the mouse cried out,
一天，一只小老鼠正急着赶路，却撞上了一只巨大的手掌。这吵醒了狮子—你知道，狮子并不喜欢在没有睡醒时被人吵醒，狮子被打扰了睡觉，有很重的起床气。于是，他把老鼠紧紧捏在手里。当他准备把老鼠吞下去的时候，老鼠哭叫起来，
“Please, kind sir, I didn’t mean to disturb you. If you will let me go, I will be grateful to you forever. And if I can, I will help you some day.”
“拜托了，先生！我不是故意要打扰您睡觉的。如果您能饶我一命，我必当感激您一辈子。如果有机会，也一定会报答您。”
The lion laughed a big laugh. How, he thought, could such a little creature as a mouse ever help so great a creature as a lion? All the same, the lion decided to let the mouse go.
狮子嘲讽得大笑。“怎么帮？”他心想“渺小如老鼠，怎么能帮助到我这么庞大的狮子？”也就是这一瞬间，狮子决定放了老鼠。
Not long after, the mouse was running along when he heard a great roaring nearby. He went closer to see what the trouble was, and there he saw the lion, caught in a hunter’s net. The mouse remembered his promise to the lion, and he began gnawing the ropes of the net, and kept gnawing until he had made a hole big enough so the lion could get free.
过了不久，老鼠正走在路上却突然听到了一声咆哮。老鼠走近想看看发生了什么，然后他看到了狮子被囚于猎人布下的网之中。老鼠记得自己对狮子许下的承诺，然后他开始用牙齿咬网的绳子，直到网上有一个足够狮子脱身的大洞。
Moral: Little friends may be great friends
寓意：看似弱小的人往往会拥有强大的力量。