Covering One’s Ears While Stealing a Bell
Mr. Wang thinks he is clever, but he always does foolish things.
One day he sees a beautiful bell at the top of a door. “Oh! How nice! I will take it home.” He thinks, “What can I do?” After a while he has a “good” idea. “Aha! I have an idea now. I can plug my ears. Then I will not hear the ring when I take off the bell.”
Then he does so. But as soon as he takes off the bell, the owner opens the door. “What ate you doing?” the owner says angrily.
掩耳盜鈴
王先生總以為自己很聰明,實際上他總干傻事。
一天,他看見一戶人家的門頭有個很漂亮的鈴鐺。“啊,真漂亮啊!我要把它拿回家去。”他自言自語道:“我該怎么做呢?”過了一會兒他想到了一個“好”主意。“啊哈!我有辦法了!我把耳朵堵上,拿鈴鐺的時候就聽不見鈴聲了。”
于是他就這樣做了??墒撬麆偰孟骡忚K,屋子的主人就打開門,怒氣沖沖地說:“你在干什么?”