伊索寓言：驢子和他的影子
Th e Ass and His Shadow
A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. The day being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the Traveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the Ass. As this afforded only protection for one, and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them as to which of them had the right to the Shadow. The owner maintained that he had let the Ass only, and not his Shadow. The Traveler asserted that he had, with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrel proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Ass galloped off.
In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
驢子和他的影子
一個旅客雇了一頭驢，騎著它到遠處去。那天天氣很熱，赤日炎炎。他停下來休息，躲避在驢子的影子下，求個蔭涼，避免暴曬。驢子的影子僅夠遮蔽一個人，於是旅客和驢子的主人為了遮蔭激烈地爭起來，誰都認為自己才有這個權(quán)利。驢子的主人堅持說他僅出租驢子本身，不出租驢子的影子。那旅客說他雇的驢子包括驢子本身和影子。他們爭論不休，以至互相打了起來。當他們打架時，驢子逃跑了。
這個故事帶出的啟示就是：人們往往為小事爭吵不休，從而失去了最重要的東西。
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