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夜雨几番销瘦了,繁华如梦总无凭。人间何处问多情。
Draw a Snake and Add Feet to It 画蛇添足
Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of them wanted to drink it by himself. So they set a rule that every one would draw a snake on the ground and the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, another man finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, "Who has ever seen a snake with feet?" The story of "Draw a snake and add feet to It." tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
古时几个人分一壶酒。他们都想独自喝完那壶酒,所以就定了一个规矩:每人在地上画一条蛇,谁画得最快,这壶酒就归谁。有一个人很快就把蛇画好了。他正打算喝这壶酒时,看见别人都还在忙着画,就决定给蛇再画上几只脚。结果,他的蛇脚还没加完,另一个人已经把蛇画好了。那人一下把酒壶夺了过去,说:"有谁见过长脚的蛇?"。这个故事告诉我们这样的道理:做得过分和做得不够都是不对的。
木之生,或蘖而殇,或拱而夭;幸而至于任为栋梁,则伐;不幸而为风之所拔,水之所漂,或破折或腐;幸而得不破折不腐,则为人之所材,而有斧斤之患。其最幸者,漂沉汩没于湍沙之间,不知其几百年,而其激射啮食之馀,或仿佛于山者,则为好事者取去,强之以为山,然后可以脱泥沙而远斧斤。而荒江之濆,如此者几何,不为好事者所见,而为樵夫野人所薪者,何可胜数?则其最幸者之中,又有不幸者焉。
予家有三峰。予每思之,则疑其有数存乎其间。且其孽而不殇,拱而不夭,任为栋梁而不伐;风拔水漂而不破折不腐,不破折不腐而不为人之所材,以及于斧斤之,出于湍沙之间,而不为樵夫野人之所薪,而后得至乎此,则其理似不偶然也。
然予之爱之,则非徒爱其似山,而又有所感焉;非徒爱之而又有所敬焉。予见中峰,魁岸踞肆,意气端重,若有以服其旁之二峰。二峰者,庄栗刻削,凛乎不可犯,虽其势服于中峰,而岌然决无阿附意。吁!其可敬也夫!其可以有所感也夫!