0 The Mystery writer

Aesop's Fables

伊索寓言

Introduction The mystery writer These stories were first told so long ago, no one knows who really wrote them. They may have been written by a man called Aesop*, who lived in Greece thousands of years ago.

这些故事最早是在很久以前讲的，没有人知道到底是谁写的。 它们可能是由一个叫伊索的人写的，他几千年前住在希腊。

No one knows much about Aesop either. He might have been a slave... or a king. But everyone agrees the stories are great. And they all have one thing in common. What does this tell you? Every story is a fable. This means it has a moral, or a lesson to be learned. See if you can guess the moral before the story ends.

也没人对伊索了解多少。 他可能是个奴隶…… 或者是国王。但每个人都认为这些故事很棒。 他们都有一个共同点。 这说明了什么？每个故事都是寓言。 这意味着它有一个寓意，或者一个教训。 看你能不能在故事结束前猜出寓意。