English Original
A dog was crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth. He saw his own shadow in the water and mistook it for another dog, who seemed to have a piece of meat twice as large. He immediately dropped his own meat and fiercely attacked the other dog to steal the larger piece. In doing so, he lost both: the one he tried to grasp in the water, because it was merely a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.
中文翻译
一只狗叼着一块肉，正走过溪流上的一座桥。他看到水中自己的倒影，误以为是另一只狗，而且那只狗嘴里的肉看起来比他的大一倍。他立刻丢下自己的肉，凶狠地扑向那只狗，想抢走那块更大的肉。结果，他两头落空：水中他想抓住的那块肉，因为它只是个影子；而他自己的那块肉，也被溪水冲走了。