雙語·《伊索寓言》 蜜蜂和朱庇特

THE BEE AND JUPITER

A Queen Bee from Hymettus flew up to Olympus with some fresh honey from the hive as a present to Jupiter, who was so pleased with the gift that he promised to give her anything she liked to ask for. She said she would be very grateful if he would give stings to the bees, to kill people who robbed them of their honey. Jupiter was greatly displeased with this request, for he loved mankind: but he had given his word, so he said that stings they should have. The stings he gave them, however, were of such a kind that whenever a bee stings a man the sting is left in the wound and the bee dies.

Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost.

蜜蜂和朱庇特

一只哈米特的蜂后帶著蜂巢里的新鮮蜂蜜，飛去奧林匹斯山敬獻(xiàn)給朱庇特，朱庇特收到禮物十分喜悅，說可以滿足蜂后的任何要求。蜂后說，如果朱庇特能夠讓蜜蜂擁有刺去殺死搶奪他們的蜂蜜的人，她會十分感激。對這個要求，朱庇特大失所望，因?yàn)樗芟矚g人類。但是他已經(jīng)許下了諾言，所以便答應(yīng)蜜蜂他們可以有刺。盡管他給了蜜蜂刺，但是蜜蜂叮完人，刺便會留在人的傷口中，而蜜蜂卻會死去。

訓(xùn)誡：惡意自有惡報(bào)。