喪家之犬
喪家之犬
春秋時期，孔子帶領他的學生到各諸侯國講學，因孔子是保守派，與當時諸侯爭霸不合拍，常常受到冷遇。
一天，孔子和他的一行弟子又來到鄭國。不料，在都城的東門外，孔子和他的弟子們走散了，只好孤零零地站在城門下等候。他的弟子子貢焦急地到處尋找孔子。有個鄭國人問他找誰，他急切地說：“喔，我在找我的老師，不知你見到過他嗎?” 那鄭國人回答說：“東門口有個老頭兒，非常古怪。他那沒精打采的樣子，活像一條居喪人家的狗，不知他是否是你的老師?”子貢趕緊來到東門。找到了孔子，如實地將那鄭國人的話說了，孔子聽后笑著說：“他說我像喪家之犬嗎？”
feel lost like a stray dog
During the Spring and autum period (春秋 chūn qiū,770 - 221BC),Confucius (kǒng zǐ 孔子) and a group of his apprentices traveled a number of countries delivering speeches concerning polictical issues and ritual principles. What he sought to do was transimiting his knowledge as well as gain the trust from the kings of these coutries so as to administrate the realm in his way. But things were never as optimistic as he thought to be. All of the emperors chose not to identify with Confucius since his suggestions seemed quite conservertive to them.
One day,after being deeply frustrated again by the leader of Lu Guo (lǔ guó 魯國),Confucius and his followers went to Zheng Guo (zhèng guó 鄭國) to have another try.Unfortunately,as soon as they arrived the coutry,Confucius strayed away from his students and decided to wait for them at the capital’s north gate lonely. Meanwhile,the students hurried to look for their respected teacher. One of the passerbys came forward and asked curiously:"You seemed so wooried ,are you looking for some one urgertly?""Yes,sir",One of students said in a anxious tone"Our teacher was lost some time earlier,did you ever saw him?"The kind citizen then said:"I did saw a little bit weird old man at the north gate,in a low spirit and out of sort ,just looked like a stray dog.Was that your teacher?"
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