The Plane Tree

by Aesop

Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest. As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.

"How useless is the Plane!" said one of them. "It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves."

"Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree. "You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"

Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.


Vocabulary

Two Travellers - ခရီးသြားႏွစ္ေယာက္
in the noonday sun - ေနပူက်ဲက်ဲထဲတြင္
walking (walk, walking, walked, walked) - လမ္းေလ်ာက္သည္
sought (seek, seeking, sought, sought) - ရွာေဖြခဲ့သည္
the shade of a widespreading tree to rest - အနားယူဖို႔ သစ္ပင္အရိပ္အေကာင္းတစ္ခု
shade - အရိပ္
a widespreading tree - အကိုင္းအခက္မ်ားျဖန္႔က်က္ေနတဲ့သစ္ပင္တစ္ပင္
lay (lie, lying, lay, lain) - လဲေလ်ာင္းသည္
looking up (look up, looking, looked up, looked up) - အေပၚကိုေမာ့ၾကည့္ေနေသာ
among the pleasant leaves - ႏွစ္သက္ၾကည္ႏူးဖြယ္ရာေကာင္းတဲ့သစ္ရြက္ေတြၾကား (တြင္)
useless - အသံုးမက်ေသာ။ အသံုးမဝင္ေသာ
Plane Tree - အကိုင္းအခတ္ျဖာထြက္၍ ပင္စည္အေပြးကြာတတ္ေသာ အပင္တစ္မ်ဳိး
How useless is the Plane! ဘာမွအသံုးမက်တဲ့သစ္ပင္ပါလားေနာ္။
bear (bear, bearing, bore, born) - အသီးသီးသည္။ ေမြးဖြားသည္။ ေသးခံသည္
whatever - ဘယ္လိုပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္
only - သာလွ်င္။ မွ်သာ
serves (serve, serving, served, served,) - တာဝန္ထမ္းေဆာင္သည္။ လုပ္ေဆာင္သည္။
only serves to litter the ground with leaves - သစ္ရြက္ေတြတစ္ပံုတစ္ပင္ႏွင့္ ကမၻာေျမကို ဝန္ထုပ္ဝန္ပိုးျဖစ္ေစရံုသက္သက္ပဲ
Ungrateful creatures! - ေက်းဇူးကန္းလိုက္တဲ့လူေတြပါလား။
grateful - ေက်းဇူးတရားကိုသိတတ္ေသာ
ungrateful - ေက်းဇူးတရားကိုမသိတတ္ေသာ
creature/ es - ေျခေလးေခ်ာင္းသတၱဝါ။ သက္ရွိသတၱဝါ
a voice from the Plane Tree - သစ္ပင္မွအသံတစ္ခု
lie - လဲေလ်ာင္းသည္
in my cooling shade - ငါ့ရဲ့ေအးျမတဲ့အရိပ္ေအာက္တြင္
yet - သို႔ရာတြင္။ ဒါေပမယ့္
say (say, saying, said, said) - ေျပာသည္။ ေျပာဆိုသည္
thus - ဒါနဲ႔။ ထိုေၾကာင့္
blessings - ဆုလာဘ္မ်ား
receive - လက္ခံရရွိသည္
Jupiter - ဂ်ဴပီတာ (ၾကာပသေတးၿဂဳိဟ္)
best (goog, better, best) - အေကာင္းဆံုးျဖစ္ေသာ
least - အနည္းဆံုး
often - မၾကာခဏ
appreciated (appreciate, appreciating, appreciated, appreciated) - ႏွစ္သက္သည္။ သေဘာက်သည္။

_____ အေကာင္ေခ် (ေက်ာက္ရိုး)
၁၆ - ၀၈ - ၂၀၁၅

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