当大家聚在一起后，那只狐狸建议他们都舍弃自己的尾巴。
He pointed out how inconvenient a tail was when they were pursued by their enemies, the dogs; how much it was in the way when they desired to sit down and hold a friendly conversation with one another.
他指出，当他们被敌人狗追赶的时候，当他们想要坐下来和对方好好说话的时候，拥有尾巴是多么不方便的一件事啊。
He failed to see any advantage in carrying about such a useless encumbrance.
他看不出拥有这样一个无用的累赘有什么好处。
"That is all very well," said one of the older foxes;
“你说的都不错，”其中一只年老的狐狸说道，
"but I do not think you would have recommended us to dispense withour chief ornament if you had not happened to lose it yourself."
“但我觉得如果你没有弄丢自己的尾巴，你是不会建议我们放弃我们主要的装饰物的。”
Distrust interested advice.
莫信出于私心的建议。
词句解析
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重点词汇词组
1.struggle to do sth. 努力/拼命做某事
例：I've been struggling to understandthis article all afternoon.
我琢磨了整整一下午，想弄懂这篇文章的意思。
常见搭配：
①struggle out 艰难地从……中挣扎出来
例：By this time he'd managed to struggle outof bed.
此时他已经挣扎着下了床。
②struggle on 竭力坚持下去，勉强维持
例：When Bobbie leaves, we'll have to struggle onby ourselves until we find a replacement.
鲍比离开后，我们得努力坚持下去，直到找到接替他的人为止。
2.be ashamed to do sth. 羞于做某事
例：Hewas ashamed to admitto his mistake.
他不好意思承认错误。
常见搭配：be ashamed of sth./sb. 对某事/某人感到羞耻
I'msoashamed of you!
我真为你的行为感到羞耻！
3.summon sb. to... 召唤某人去……
例：We were summoned tothe headmaster's office.
我们被叫去了校长办公室。
常见搭配：summon sth. up 唤起；鼓起
例：It took me six months to summon upthe courage to ask him out for a drink.
我花了6个月时间才鼓起勇气约他出去喝一杯。
4.do away with 摆脱，抛弃；废除
例：These ridiculous rules and regulations should have been done away withyears ago.
这些荒唐的规章制度几年前就该废除了。
常见搭配：
①do sb. down 羞辱；贬低
例：She felt that everyone in the meeting was trying to do her down.
她觉得会上每一个人都在试图羞辱她。
②do sb. out of sth. 使……蒙受损失；骗取，骗走
例：Pensionershave been done out ofmillions of pounds as a result of the changes.
这些变化使领取养老金者损失了数百万英镑。
5.dispense with 免除；废止；省去；不再使用
例：They've had to dispense witha lot of luxuries since Mike lost his job.
由于迈克丢了工作，他们不得不与奢侈生活告别。
常见搭配：dispense sth. to sb. 向某人分发某物
例：Villagers dispensed tea tovisitors.
村民们给来客送茶。
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长难句解析
He pointed outhow inconvenient a tail was when they were pursued by their enemies, the dogs; how much it was in the way when they desired to sit down and hold a friendly conversation with one another.
他指出，当他们被敌人狗追赶的时候，当他们想要坐下来和对方好好说话的时候，拥有尾巴是多么不方便的一件事啊。
解析：本句是一个主从复合句。第一个 宾语从句中的the dogs作their enemies的同位语，“when they were pursued by their enemies”是 时间状语从句，该从句使用了一般过去时的被动语态，结构为“was/were+动词过去分词”，“when they desired to sit down...another”是 时间状语从句。
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