Chapter 15 The Dog and the Shadow

A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh¹ in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely² attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.

1 flesh   

n.肉；（供食用的）肉；果肉

参考例句：

• A fat man has much more flesh than a thin man.胖人较瘦人肉多。
• The flesh of the peach was sweet and juicy.桃子的果肉甜而多汁。

2 fiercely   

adv.猛烈地，厉害地

参考例句：

• He knocked the tiger about fiercely until it lay dead.他挥拳痛击老虎，直到把它打死在地。
• They brushed aside every difficulty and pushed on fiercely.他们不顾一切困难，向前推进。