------------------本文选自 Aesop's fables 伊索寓言-------------------
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to
lay violent hands on（对...施以暴力） him, but to find some plea(找借口） to justify to theLamb the Wolf's right to eat him.
He thus addressed him:
"Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me."
"Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice,
"I was not then born."
Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture."
"No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass."
Again said the Wolf,"You drink of my well."
"No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water,
for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me."
Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying,
"Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute（驳倒） every
one of my imputations（罪名）."
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.