The actuall source is a fable written for children in the 18th century, by ?

实际上来自于18世纪,写给孩子的一个童话？

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He quotes a kind of a fable.

他引用了一段类似寓言的东西

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Rosenberg is giving us an anecdote from the trenches, and yet it slips very quickly into a sense of fable.

罗宾森给我们呈现战壕中的轶事，它很快成为一个无稽之谈。

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He says that he is a fool; I'm sorry, he tells this fable of the hawk and the nightingale, which illustrates really the doctrine of might over right.

他说自己是个愚人,抱歉,他讲了一个关于鹰和夜莺的寓言,它很好地阐释了,强权战胜正义这个信条

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