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The Cock and the Pearl
公鸡与珍珠
A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.
有一次，一只公鸡在农家院里的母鸡中间大摇大摆地走来走去，突然他看到稻草里有什么东西在闪闪发光。
"Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw.
“哈！哈！”他说，“那是我的”，很快就把它从稻草下面刨了出来。
What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard?
那原来是一颗偶然失落在院子里的珍珠吗？
"You may be a treasure," quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."
“对于那些珍视你的人来说，你可能是一笔财富，”公鸡说，“但对我来说，我宁愿要一粒大麦，也不愿要一堆珍珠。”
Precious things are for those that can prize them.
珍贵的东西是给那些懂得珍视的人的。
