雙語·《伊索寓言》 人和神像

THE MAN AND THE IMAGE

A poor Man had a wooden Image of a god, to which he used to pray daily for riches. He did this for a long time, but remained as poor as ever, till one day he caught up the Image in disgust and hurled it with all his strength against the wall. The force of the blow split open the head and a quantity of gold coins fell out upon the floor. The Man gathered them up greedily, and said, “O you old fraud, you! When I honoured you, you did me no good whatever: but no sooner do I treat you to insults and violence than you make a rich man of me!”

人和神像

有一個(gè)窮人，他有一尊木頭神像，他每天都向神像祈禱，希望自己能富裕起來。他堅(jiān)持了很長一段時(shí)間，可是依然一貧如洗，有一天，他惱恨地抓起神像，用盡力氣砸向了墻壁。這一下猛擊，將神像的頭給砸開了，很多金幣從里面滾出來落在地板上。那人貪婪地將金幣收集起來，說：“哎呀，你這個(gè)老騙子！我敬你的時(shí)候，你什么好處都不給我，可是我一以羞辱、暴力待你，你便讓我做了有錢人?！?/p>