I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.

我认为伊索的意思是，如果你对别人行善，你可以希望这一善事会反过来使你，也就是做这件善事的人，在某种程度上受益。

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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. — Aesop.

人经常对模仿品喝彩，而对真品却嗤之以鼻。——伊索。

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"The design references the region's relaxed, tropical environment, offering a space of calm respite and visual intrigue," said Aesop.

“设计参考了该地区轻松，热带的环境，提供了平静的喘息和视觉阴谋的空间，”Aesop说。

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He's a standard literary device that you see in fables of this period, and later--the kind that you find for example in the fables of Aesop.

它只是当时在传说中，不可缺少的角色，你可以在随后的伊索寓言中，找到类似的例子。

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One such study, conducted by Sarah Werning of the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues, is reminiscent of Aesop's fable about the hare and the tortoise with dinosaurs playing the role of the cocky lagomorph and crocodiles that of the slow but steady chelonian.

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That is, of course, the punch line to the Aesop fable about the slow, compact tortoise and the sleek, swifter hare.

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