一只燕子在和一只夜莺聊天，燕子劝她不要在茂密的树丛上做窝了，像自己一样与人住在一起。可是，夜莺却回答说：“我过去也曾像你一样相人住在一起，但是我所遭受的那份痛苦回忆让他们都不喜欢我，我永远都不想再接近他们的住所。”
【夜莺和燕子的故事寓意】
夜莺和燕子的寓言故事告诉了我们：痛苦的回忆使得过去的痛苦体验历历在目。
【夜莺和燕子的英文版】
THE NIGHTINGAIE AND THE SWALLOW
A Swallow,conversing with a Nightingale，advised her to quit the leafy covens where she made her home，and to come and live with men，like herself,and nest under the shelter of their roofs.But the Nightingale replied，“Time was when I too，like yourself,lived among men：but the memory of the cruel wrongs I then suffered makes them hateful to me，and never again will I approach their dwellings.”
The scene of past sufferings revives painful memories.