楚人有生而不识姜者，曰：“此从树上结成。” 或曰：“从土里生成。” 其人固执已见，曰：“请与予以十人为质，以所乘驴为赌。” 已而遍口十人，皆曰：“土里出也。” 其人哑然失色，曰：“驴则付汝，姜还树生。”
——《雪涛小说》
The Man Who Would Not Admit his
Mistake
In
the state of Chu lived a man who did not know where ginger grew. He thought it
grew on trees. Someone
told him it grew in the ground. He
could not believe this was true, and said, “I will lay a bet with you with my
donkey. Let us ask ten people; if they all say it grows in the ground, the
donkey is yours!” They
asked ten men who all said that it grew in the ground. “Take
the donkey!” said the man. “But, all the same, I know ginger grows on trees!”
Stories by Xue Tao |
/1 
