一个屠夫卖完了肉回家，天色已经晚了。在这时，突然出现了一匹狼。狼不断的窥视着屠户带着的肉，嘴里的口水似乎都快要流出来了，就这样尾随着屠户跑了好几里路。屠户感到很害怕，于是就拿着屠刀来比划着给狼看，狼稍稍退了几步，可是等到屠户转过身来继续朝前走的时候，狼又跟了上来。
屠户没办法了，于是他想，狼想要的是肉,不如把肉挂在树上（这样狼够不着）,等明天早上（狼走了）再来取肉。于是屠户就把肉挂在钩子上，踮起脚（把带肉的钩子）挂在树上，然后把空担子拿给狼看了看。就这样狼就停下来不再跟着屠户了。屠户就（安全地）回家了。第二天拂晓，屠户前去（昨天挂肉的地方）取肉，远远的就看见树上挂着一个巨大的东西，就好像一个吊死在树上的人，感到非常害怕。
（屠户因为害怕）小心地（在树的四周）徘徊着向树靠近，等走到近前一看，原来（树上悬挂着的）是一条死狼。（屠夫）抬起头来仔细观察发现，狼的嘴里含着肉，挂肉的钩子已经刺穿了狼的上颚，那个情形就好像鱼儿咬住了鱼饵。当时市场上狼皮非常昂贵，（这张狼皮）能值十几两金子，屠户的生活略微宽裕了。
第一则原文：
有屠人货肉归，日已暮。歘一狼来，瞰担上肉，似甚垂涎；步亦步，尾行数里。屠惧，示之以刃，则稍却；既走，又从之。屠无机，默念狼所欲者肉，不如姑悬诸树，而蚤取之。遂钩肉，翘足挂树间，示以空担。狼乃止。屠即竟归。昧爽往取肉，遥望树上悬巨物，似人缢死状。大骇。
逡巡近视之，则死狼也。仰首审视，见口中含肉，肉钩刺狼腭，如鱼吞饵。时狼革价昂，直十余金，屠小裕焉。缘木求鱼，狼则罹之，可笑矣。
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《狼三则》都是写屠夫在不同情况下遇狼杀狼的故事。第一则着重表现狼的贪婪本性，第二则着重表现狼的欺诈伎俩。第三则着重表现狼的爪牙锐利，但最终却落得个被杀死的下场，作者借此肯定屠户杀狼的正义行为和巧妙高明的策略。三个故事都有生动曲折的情节，各自成篇，然而又紧密相关，构成一个完整统一体，从不同侧面阐发了主题思想。
蒲松龄是同情人民疾苦，憎恶贪官污吏的作家，在《聊斋志异》另一篇故事《梦狼》中，把贪官写成牙齿尖利的老虎，把衙役写成吃人血肉的狼；它们大吃大嚼，造成“白骨如山”的惨象。作者“窃叹天下官虎而吏狼者比比也”(《梦狼》)，认为他们“可诛”“可恨”(《王大》)。《狼三则》形象地揭露狼的吃人本质，凶狠狡诈的特性，表现了对豺狼不能抱有幻想，不能怯懦退缩，只能勇敢机智地把它们杀死的主题思想。
本则所写屠户遇狼，始而迁就退让，几乎被吃，继而奋起杀狼，使自己转危为安的生动曲折过程，更是突出了这一主题。《狼三则》的故事是富有深意的，可以说是对《梦狼》的补充，实际上寄寓了作者鞭挞贪官污吏的思想。如此，对付现实生活中阶级敌人也必须如此。要敢于斗争，又要善于斗争，以夺取胜利。
参考资料来源：百度百科-狼三则
就像爬上树去捉鱼一样，狼本来想吃肉，结果遭遇了祸患，真是可笑啊！本回答被提问者采纳
It was getting late before the butcher sold out his pork, and now he is on his way back home. All of a sudden,there comes a wolf who desperately kept staring at the pork and stalking after him as if it is counting the his footsteps all the way. The more miles the wolf kept stalking, the butcher’s sense of fear grows stronger.Then, the butcher showed his sharp slaughter knife toward the wolf and fortunately scared it back off. So scared, the butcher started to run,however the wolf started stalking him again. The butcher has nothing to do but to wonder that all the wolf want is the pork. Therefore,the butcher hung the pork in the tree, hoping to get the pork back the next day, and then showed the empty basket to the wolf and finally the wolf seemed to stop stalking and the butcher got home.
Approaching dawn, the butcher is on his way to get his pork back from the tree. Viewing remotely the tree, there’s something enormous hanging on it which appeared as if somebody is hanging himself. The butcher was so frightened that he lingered for a little while before moving forward to check what it really is. Surprisingly ,it is a dead wolf, it got pork in its mouth together with the hook which wholly viewed as a fish hanged by bail.
Wolf fur, which is very expensive recently, was exchanged for treasure by the butcher and it really made him bit richer than before.
How hilarious it is that the wolf to swallow the meat eagerly and get himself sleighed !