那些給我智慧和勇氣的寓言故事53:守財奴
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A Miser, to make sure of his property, sold all that he had had converted it into a great lump of gold, which he hid in a hole in the ground, and went continually to visit and inspect it.
一個守財奴,為了確保他的財產,賣掉所有家當換成了一大塊金子,埋在一個地洞裡,並且不時地去檢視.This roused the curiosity of one of his workmen, who, suspecting that there was a treasure, when his master's back was turned went to the spot and stole it away.
這引起了手下一個僱工的好奇。僱工猜測那裡肯定有寶貝,趁主人離開之際,他來到埋藏地點,把金子偷走了。When the Miser returned and found the place empty, he wept and tore his hair. But a neighbor who saw him in this extravagant grief, and learned the cause of it,
當守財奴回來發現金子不翼而飛,便痛哭流涕,亂撮頭髮。一個鄰人見狀問明原由後說
said: "Fret thyself no longer, but take a stone and put it in the same place, and think that it is your lump of gold; for, as you never meant to use it, the one will do you as much gold as the other."
“你也別太痛苦了,拿一塊石頭再埋在原地,就當是那塊金子好了,因為既然你永遠不想用它,那麼兩者不是一回事嗎”。