每日英语故事：5月25日：An Ill-Natured Neighbor his, getting, direction, happiness, fox

xiaogua

An ill-natured, jealous peasant saw his neighbor's getting a very good harvest. As he was unable to be glad of his neighbor's blessing from God, he devised the way how to destroy his neighbor's happiness. To attain his purpose he caught a fox, tied a lighted torch to its tail and drove it in the direction of his neighbor’s fields. Seeing the fox reached the field, it changed its direction, and began, to hiss amazement, plunging into his own fields where the grains had almost been ripe. A few minutes had passed before all his fields were enveloped in volumes of flames. He sorrowed, lamented（哀叹）, rushing about in his neighborhood, and devised to lay the blame at his neighbor's door. But as his neighbor had been believed to be very honest since ages ago, and, on the contrary, he had been reputed as an ill-natured man, none could place any confidence in his words.

     A misdeed only leads one to a snare （圈套）set for others。

小钰钰

all his fields were enveloped in volumes of flames
这句怎么理解，不是狐狸跑过去了么，怎么说有火啊。

xiaopengyou

回复 2# 小钰钰


   tied a lighted torch to its tail

xiaogua

The buddy above is absolutely right .  The reason is that torch tied to the fox's tail.