A CRAB said to her son, "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child?
It is far more becoming to go straight forward."
The young Crab replied:"Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it."
The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
一只螃蟹对她的儿子说:“我的孩子,你为什么还要横着走呢,现在都向前直着走了。”
小螃蟹回答说:“不错,妈妈,如果你给我演示怎么直着走,我保证我会去做的。”
螃蟹妈妈极力尝试,却没有成功,于是她不再为难小螃蟹了。
寓意:
Example is more powerful than precept。
身教胜于言教 |
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