语有之曰:“有鸟将来,张罗待之,得鸟者一目也。” 今为一目之罗,无时得鸟矣。
——《申鉴》
One-Hole
Nets
There is an old
saying, “No matter how big a net one may spread, each bird is caught in a
single hole.” Now a person was so
fascinated by this witticism that he took a number of pieces of string and made
separate loops of them by tying the ends together. Consequently never once did he
catch a bird with those “nets.”
Shen
Jian
(杨宪益、戴乃迭 译) |