There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg. 从前有个乡下人,他拥有一只你能想象到的最奇妙的鹅,因为每天他去鹅窝时,鹅都会下一个美丽、闪闪发光的金蛋。
The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough. 乡下人把蛋拿到市场上去卖,很快就开始变得富有了。但没过多久,他就对鹅不耐烦了,因为她每天只给他下一个金蛋。他致富的速度不够快。
Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead. 然后有一天,在他数完钱后,他想到了一个主意,他可以通过杀死鹅并把它切开,一次性得到所有的金蛋。但当他完成这一行为时,他一个金蛋也没找到,而他珍贵的鹅也死了。
Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have. 那些拥有很多的人想要更多,结果却失去了他们所拥有的一切。