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诚实是最好的美德
Honesty Is
Best
英语作
文
诚实是最好的美德
Honesty Is
Best
英语作文
Honesty Is Best
A
poor
man
once
lived
in
a
village
near
a
was
a
used to go to the forest to cut wood
in order to
sell it.
One day he went to the
forest to cut wood as he
had done some
work,he sat on the bank of the river to
axe fell into the water and it was the
only one he was not
able to get it
back from the river,so he began to cry.
The
God
Hermes
appeared
and
asked
him
why
he
was
woodcutter told him that his only axe had fallen
into
the river and that he was not able
to get it back.
Hermes felt sorry for him,so he jumped
into the water and
brought
up
a
gold
said
to
the
woodcutter,”Is
this
your
axe?”The man
an
-
swered,”No,it isn’ jumped
again and
came up with a silver axe and
gave it to the the
honest
woodcutter
would
not
take
it
because
it
was
not
the God
Hermes went down into the water for the third time
and
brought
up
the
man’s
o
wn
man
was
very
thanked Hermes and took the
was so pleased with
the honesty of this
poor man that he gave him both the gold and
the silver axes as presents.
When the
woodcutter joined his friends,he told them how
Hermes had helped him to get his axe
and how he had given him
the other two
of his friends thought that it would be a
good idea to do the same,so he went to
the river and dropped his
axe
into
the
water
on
he
sat
down
and
appeared
and
asked
him
why
he
was
answered that his axe had fallen into
the river.
Hermes dived and brought him a gold axe
and asked him if
it was man took it
and said,”Yes,it’s mine.”Hermes was
angry with the
man because
he was lying,so he took away the
gold
axe and did not even bring him back his own axe.
参考译文：
诚实是最好的美德
从前有一个穷人住在河边的村庄里
。他是个樵夫。他过
去常常到森林去砍柴卖钱。
有一天，他像往常一样到森林里去砍柴。
他砍了一会