It comes from a collection of stories known as Aesop's Fables.

它来自一系列被称为伊索寓言的故事。

This idea is captured nicely in a fable by Aesop.

这种观念在伊索寓言中得到了生动的描绘。

Remember, Aesop's fables are stories from a long time ago.

记住，伊索寓言是很久以前的故事。

We have another of Aesop's fables.

我们又有了一则伊索寓言。

And that brings us to one of Aesop's fables called " The Tortoise and the Hare" .

这就引出了伊索寓言中的一个做" 乌龟和野兔" 的寓言。

Other experts claim that one of Aesop's Fables, called The Gardener and His Dog, shows an example of this expression.

其他专家声称，伊索寓言《园丁和狗》就是这样的一个例子。

When you think about it, Aesop had these parables, these fables.

想想吧，伊索有这些寓言故事。

It's like a sort of Aesop's fable at sea.

这就像海上的一个伊索寓言。

He was a born fabulist and his Moral Fables of Aesop proved it.

他是一个天生的寓言家, 他的《伊索寓言》证明了这一点。

This is Aesop's Fables. You can find many animal stories in it.

这是《伊索寓言》。你可以从中找到许多动物故事。

Aesop and a Traveler Now, listen to the passage.

伊索寓言和旅行者 现在, 听这段话。

This might even be one of the stories from Aesop, from the ancient world, from ancient Greece.

这可能是来自古希腊的伊索寓言中的一个故事。

But let me point out, the boy who cried wolf, Aesop's fable about the boy who cried wolf.

但让我指出，《伊索寓言》中那个“狼来了”的故事。

His sons some twigs Monty Gluckstein once told his nephew drawing on Esop's fable break one the father orders.

他的儿子们就像一些小树枝，蒙蒂·格鲁克斯坦曾经告诉他的侄子，引用伊索寓言中的说法，单独一根很容易就被折断。

Wherever he could find or make light, he read: Aesop's Fables, Robinson Crusoe, the Bible.

只要他能找到或找到光明，他就会阅读：伊索寓言、鲁滨逊漂流记、圣经。

At once light and learned, this tour of children's literature from Aesop to Harry Potter takes you back to your delighted first years of reading.

既轻松又渊博，这场从《伊索寓言》到《哈利·波特》的儿童学之旅，将带你回到最的快乐阅读时光。

And I just think storytelling, not like Aesop's fables or something like that, storytelling that has an outcome is very aspirational.

我只是认为讲故事，不像伊索寓言或类似的东西，有结果的讲故事是非常令人向往的。

They also read aloud Aesop's fable The North Wind and the Sun, which has been a popular text for phonetics research since 1949.

他们还大声朗读了伊索寓言《北风和太阳》，这篇本自1949年以来一直是语音学研究的热门材料。

ALICE WINKLER: Luckily for Tutu, his father taught him Aesop's Fables and the stories of Shakespeare, and let him devour comic books, which gave Tutu a lifelong love of reading.

图图很幸运，他的父亲教他伊索寓言和莎士比亚的故事，让他看漫画书，这让图图有了终生的阅读爱好。

There is actually a reference to this expression, I believe, going back as far as Aesop's Fables, back in the days of the ancient Greeks.

我相信， 实际上有对这个表达的引用，可以追溯到古希腊时代的伊索寓言。