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A Lion in Love



zhī
shī

ài
shàng
le

wèi
měi

de

hái
ér

pián
便
zhǎo
dào
tā
de
fù
mǔ
xiàng
tā
qíu
hūn


A lion once fell in love with a beautiful girl, so he went to her parents and asked them to marry her to him.


hái
ér
de
fù
qīn
bù
zhī
dào
gāi
rú
hé
huí
dā

tā
bù
rěn
jiāng

ér
xǔ
pèi
gěi
yě
shòu

dàn
yòu
hài
pà

nù
zhè
shòu
zhōng
zhī
wáng


The old parents did not know what to say. They did not like the idea of giving their daughter to the lion, but they did not want to enrage the king of beasts.

yú
shì
fù
qīn
shuō


wǒ
men
hěn
lè

jiāng

ér
jià
gěi


dàn
yòu
pà

bù
xiǎo
xīn
shāng
hài
tā

rú
guǒ

bá
qù
yá
chǐ
齿

duò
diào

zhǎo

wǒ
men
jìu
jiāng

ér
jià
gěi




At last the father said, "We are glad to marry our daughter to you, but we fear that you might possibly hurt her. So if you remove your claws and teeth, we will give her to you."

shī

fēi
cháng
ài
zhè
gè

hái
ér

yú
shì
tā
xīu
jiǎn
le
zhǎo


bá
diào
le
jiān
yá
hòu
yòu
qù
zhǎo

hái
de
fù
mǔ

kě
shì
zhè
shí

tā
men
cháo
xiào
tā

bìng
bǎ
tā
gǎn
le
chū
qù


The lion loved the girl very much, so he trimmed his claws and took out his big teeth. When he came to the parents again, they simply laughed in his face, and beat him out of their house.

yù

yǒu
xiē
rén
qīng

xiāng
xìn
bié
rén
de
huà

pāo



de
cháng
chǔ

jié
guǒ
qīng
ér

jǔ
dè
bèi
yuán
lái
hài
pà
tā
men
de
rén

bài
le


The fable tells us: Some people are beaten off just because they believe in other's talk and reject there advantages.

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