IN THE WINTERTIME, a Dog curled up in as small a space as possible on account of the cold, determined to make himself a house. —
在冬季，一只狗因为寒冷而卷缩在尽可能小的空间里，决定给自己盖一个房子。 —

However when the summer returned again, he lay asleep stretched at his full length and appeared to himself to be of a great size. —
然而当夏天再次回来时，他伸展开来，躺在他的全长上，觉得自己看起来很大。 —

Now he considered that it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him.
现在他觉得盖一个能容纳他的房子既不容易也不必要。