百喻經之七七: 搆驢乳喻
§77 搆驢乳喻
(77) to milk a donkey
昔邊國人，不識于驢，聞他說言，驢乳甚美，都無識者。爾時諸人，得一父驢，欲搆其乳，爭共捉之。
once upon a time, there was a group of frontiersmen who had never seen a monkey before. thus they could not identify it. they were told that its milk was delicious. it happened that they found a male donkey and they tried to milk it. they began their wrangling about apprehending it.
其中有捉頭者，有捉耳者，有捉尾者，有捉腳者，復有捉器者，各欲先得，于前飲之。中捉驢根，謂呼是乳，即便搆之，望得其乳。眾人疲厭，都無所得，徒自勞苦，空無所獲，為一切世人之所嗤笑。
one seized its head: another, its ears; the third, its tail; the fourth, its feet; and finally the fifth, its penis. all wanted to be the first to drink its milk. the one who grasped the donkey's penis called out that he could get milk there from. then he began to extract. finally, this group of people felt tired and bored, for they could not get what they had wanted. they got nothing in return, despite of their effort. they were all laughed at by the people at large.
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