One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.
"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"
"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."
The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.
"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.
There's a time for work and a time for play.
译文：
在深秋的一个阳光明媚的日子里，一群蚂蚁在温暖的阳光下忙碌着，晒干了它们夏天储存的粮食。这时，一只饥饿的蚱蜢，腋下夹着小提琴，走了过来，恭恭敬敬地要吃点东西。
“什么!”蚂蚁们惊奇地叫道，“你没有为过冬准备过什么东西吗?”去年夏天你到底在干什么?”
蚱蜢抱怨说:“我没有时间储存食物。”“我忙着做音乐，还没等我意识到，夏天就过去了。”
蚂蚁们厌恶地耸了耸肩。
“你们在做音乐吗?”“很好;现在跳舞!”他们转身离开蚱蜢，继续工作。
有工作和娱乐的时间。
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