Once upon a time, there was a hunter. He picked up an eaglet without mother's care on his way to the uphill hunting and took it home. In his house, there was a hen, which had just given birth to a brood of chicks. So the hunter reared the eaglet together with the chicks in the courtyard. The eaglet was growing up with the chicks day by day. It thought it was a chick, catching worms and eating vegetable leaves in the yard all day. The hunter wanted the grown eaglet to go hunting with him and fly high to be a true falcon. But no matter how he tried, the eaglet couldn't fly!
Driven to despair, the hunter brought the eaglet to the high hilltop, flinging it down the hill. The scared eaglet started struggling to flap its wings, once, twice...Finally, it found a balance, got the feeling of fly, and spread its wings to soar in the sky.
从前，有一个猎人。他上山打猎途中捡到一只离群的小鹰，并把它带回了家。家里有只母鸡刚刚下了一窝小鸡崽。于是，猎人把小鹰和鸡崽放在一起养在院子里。小鹰和鸡崽们一天天地长大，它以为自己就是一只小鸡，整日抓虫子、吃菜叶子。猎人想带长大了的小鹰去打猎，让它能够展翅高飞成为真正的猎鹰，可是不论他怎么努力，小鹰就是飞不起来！
猎人绝望了，径直把小鹰带到高高的山顶，朝山下扔去。吓坏了的小鹰开始拼命扑扇翅膀，一次、两次……终于，小鹰掌握了平衡，找到了飞翔的感觉，振翅飞向云端。
-brood [bruːd] n. (雏鸡、鸟等的)一窝
-fling [flɪŋ] v. (尤指生气地)猛扔
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