簡短的童話故事英文版：鸚雀笑鵬

As the legend goes, during ancient times, in the expansive open country of North China, there was a kind of birds called "rocs".

The roc was very huge, with its back like a big mountain, and its wings like a stretch of cloud which could cover the sky. When it spread its wings, it could break through a storm and soar at a height of 90,000 li (1/2 kilometre) in the sky towards the sea in the south.

A small bird called the quail1 bounced on the ground, free and happy. It looked up at the roc soaring in the sky and couldn't help laughing: "Hey, see how cocky you are! Look at me, one jump can take me over 10 chi. How delightful2! Every day I come and go amid these weeds and thickets3 and fly freely. Don't I fly quite well too? But, where can you fly to anyway?"

譯文：傳說，古時候中國北方的原野上有一種鳥，它的名字叫“鵬”。

鵬長得很大，背脊像一座大山，翅膀像一大片雲，能把天空遮住。它張開翅膀能衝破風暴，在九萬里高的天空中飛翔，一直飛向南方的大海。

有一隻叫鸚雀的小鳥，在地上蹦蹦跳跳，自由自在，非常快活。它望着天空中展翅飛翔的大鵬，忍不住發笑，說：“咳，看你神氣活現的!我呀，一蹦一跳，就有十幾尺，多麼痛快啊!我每天在這些雜草和樹叢裏，來來去去，自由飛翔，不也飛得挺好嗎?可是，你又能飛到哪裏去呢?”

傲慢是自我膨脹的表現，目中無人，心中無善，傲慢的人是我們生活中最討厭的人之一，也是樹敵一大原因，別去顯擺，因爲沒有人會因這種人的存在與否而發生改變，別人也不會願與這種人產生什麼瓜葛。友善總好過傲慢，願心存善念。