【寓言】The Fir Tree and the Bramble(有声)

The Fir-Tree and the Brambleer
 
  A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, "You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses."

 The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew¹ you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree."

 Better poverty without care, than riches with.
 

1 hew   

v.砍；伐；削

参考例句：

• Hew a path through the underbrush.在灌木丛中砍出一条小路。
• Plant a sapling as tall as yourself and hew it off when it is two times high of you.种一棵与自己身高一样的树苗，长到比自己高两倍时砍掉它。