新概念英语第四册补充材料12

The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter whom he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. 

The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolute, unselfish friend a man may have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. 

A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground when the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the sores and wounds that come in the encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. 

When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes and death takes its master in its embrace and the body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness faithful and true even to death. 

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义犬颂

世上的莫逆之交可能反目为仇。一心钟爱养育成人的儿女到头来可能变成忘恩负义的冤家。我们的亲朋挚友，我们以幸福和荣誉相托的人，也许会背叛其旦旦信誓。人的金钱会丢失。可能在最需要的时候，不翼而飞。片刻考虑欠周的言行，会招致声名狼藉，我们飞黄腾达时，那些善于屈膝下跪，阿谀逢迎的人，在失败的阴云笼罩我们的时候，可能就是首先恶意投井下石的人。在这自私自利的人世，一个人所能够得到的完全舍已为人永不抛弃他，永不忘恩负义和永不欺诈他的唯一的朋友。那就是他的狗。

不管他是富裕还是贫困，是健壮还是多病，寸步不离他的还是他的狗。尽管寒风呼啸，雨雪霏霏，只要能贴近主人的身边，它甘愿睡卧在冰冷的地上，它愿意亲吻主人那只没有食物可施的空手，它愿舔主人在这险恶的人世斗争中遭受的创伤，它保护着一贫如洗的主人安睡，就象保护一位王子一样。

所有其他朋友都纷纷离去时，它却安然不动。主人财尽名裂时，它永远爱他，热爱之情就象太阳在天空中运行那永恒不变如果受命运之神的捉弄，主人在世上颠沛流离无亲可投，无家可归，那忠贞不渝的义犬除了希图伴随主人，保卫主人免受危险，同主人的敌人作斗争外，别无他图当人生最终的一幕降临时，死神夺去它的主人，尸体埋葬在冰冷的地下。不管是否所有其他友人都纷纷离去，我们仍会发现那品德高尚的犬，守候在他的墓旁，两只前足托着头部忧伤而圆睁的双眼在机警地提防着—虔诚忠贞死而后已。

 

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