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| 08年04月16日 | |
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Once upon a time, there was a farmer who made his living by growing grain. Every day, he would go out to the fields before dawn and would not return home until the sun was setting against the mountains. He went on in this way day after day, year after year.
Every evening when he came home, he was so tired that he didn’t even want to move. Sometimes he was too tired to say a word. He started to become discouraged, because even though he worked so hard every day, the crops were not growing very quickly. He worried that they would never grow at all.
One day, the farmer worked for a long time and felt very tired, so he sat down at one end of the field to rest. He watched the crops as he thought. “Crops, crops, why don’t you grow more quickly?” he said aloud. As he was thinking, he unconsciously pulled up a small plant. Then, an idea suddenly occurred to him. He immediately got up and set to work. He pulled up the plants one by one, thinking, “this way you can grow more quickly.”
When he reached home, it was very late. His son asked, “Dad, why are you home so late tonight?” The farmer answered, “Today I was exhausted. I pulled up all the plants, one by one. I thought that if I pulled them up higher, they would grow tall in no time.” When the son heard this, he was shocked. He immediately ran to the fields, but he was too late. All the plants were already withered.
This story tells us: “If you interfere with the natural development with something and try to make it develop more quickly than it should, you will ruin it.
翻译:
从前有一个农夫靠种庄稼为生,每天天不亮他就起床到地里劳动,晚上直到太阳落山以后才回家。就这样日复一日,年复一年。
每天晚上他回到家以后,常常累得一动都不想动,话都懒得说一句。更令他烦恼的是,虽然他每天辛辛苦苦地干活,但是这庄稼却长得那么慢,真让人着急。
有一天,农夫干了好长时间的活,觉得很累,就坐到地头休息。他一边看着庄稼一边想:庄稼啊,庄稼啊,你们快快长吧!想着想着,他就顺手拔起了身边的一棵庄稼苗。这时他突然想起了一个主意,于是便马上起身忙了起来。他把庄稼一根一根往上拔,边拔边想:这次你们都长得快了吧。
他回到家时天已经很晚了,儿子问:“爸爸,你今天怎么这么晚才回来呀?”农夫说:“今天可把我给累坏了。我把每一根庄稼苗都一个一个拔出来了一些,它们一下子都长高了。”儿子听了大吃一惊,连忙跑到地里。可是已经晚了,禾苗全都已经枯死了。
这个故事说明:违反事物的发展规律,急于求成,反而坏事,欲速则不达。
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