I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.

我认为伊索的意思是，如果你对别人行善，你可以希望这一善事会反过来使你，也就是做这件善事的人，在某种程度上受益。

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"Go," Aesop shouted to him.

“走，”伊索朝他喊道。

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Suddenly he heard Aesop Shouting to him.

突然他听到伊索想他大喊。

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He's a standard literary device that you see in fables of this period, and later--the kind that you find for example in the fables of Aesop.

它只是当时在传说中，不可缺少的角色，你可以在随后的伊索寓言中，找到类似的例子。

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