Poet Jean de La Fontaine wrote, " on the wings of time grief flies away."

诗人让·德·拉封丹写道，“悲伤乘着时间的翅膀而远去”。

So Orwell did what Aesop, Walt Disney, La Fontaine and Beatrix Potter among many others have done.

所以奥威尔做了伊索、沃尔特迪斯尼、拉封丹和比阿特丽克斯波特等许多人所做的事情。

Finally he bowed and thought he could get away; but they insisted on his trying a fable of La Fontaine.

最后他鞠了一躬，以为自己可以离开了。但他们坚持要他尝试拉封丹的寓言。