伊索寓言:孔雀与鹤-The Peacock And The Crane(在线收听

 A Peacock spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, “I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.” “True,” replied the Crane; “but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill.”

The moral of the story is: Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.
 
Word checker:
 
mock (verb): to laugh at and make fun of
ridicule (verb): to make someone feel ridiculous (same as above)
hue (noun): colour
soar (verb): to go very high
dunghill (noun): where animals excrete their waste
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