【战马和磨坊主的故事寓意】
通过阅读战马和磨坊主这篇寓言故事,我懂得了,怀念过去是人之常情,毕竟回忆是美好的,深刻的,令人难忘。然而终日沉于回忆之中,就会失去“现在”,我们谁也不可能总过着一成不变的生活,一辈子起起落落很正常。时而荣华富贵,时而艰难困苦,不管境遇如何,都应以一种平和的心态去面对,要有随遇而安的准备,否则只会让自己更加痛苦。
【战马和磨坊主的英文版】
THE CHARGER AND THE MILLER
A Horse,who had been used to carry his rider Into battle,feIt himself growing old and chose to work in a mill instead.He now no longer found himself stepping out proudly to the beating of the drums,but was compelled to slave away all day grinding the corn.Bewailing his hard lot,he said one day to the Miller,“Ah me!I was once a splendid war-horse,gaily caparisoned,and attended by a groom whose sole duty was to see to my wants.How different is my present condition!i wish I had never given up the battlefield for the mill.”The Miller replied with asperity,“It’S no use your regretting the past.Fortune has many ups and downs:you must iust take them as they come.”