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一位旅行者停下来在一棵坚果树下休息，发现一个大南瓜长在一棵细藤上。 "大自然的法则真是愚蠢啊！ ”旅客嘟哝着说,“如果事情都合情合理的话，这棵强劲有力的大树应该挂着大南瓜，这根细长的藤蔓应该结坚果。假如我是造物主的话，我就会这样做。” 就在这时，一颗小坚果从高高的树上掉了下来，正好打中了他的脑袋。他吓了一跳,抬头看看树枝，心里想，原谅我的骄傲自大吧！要是一个大南瓜从树上掉下来打到我头上的话， 十有八九会要了我的命！” The Traveler and the Nut Tree A traveler who stopped to rest under a nut tree noticed a huge pumpkin growing on a thin vine. "How foolish are the ways of nature，，’ the traveler muttered. "If things were as they should be, this big, strong tree would hold the large pumpkins, and the spindly vine would hold the nuts. Now if I made the world, that is how I’d have done it! ” At that moment, from high up in the tree, a small nut fell and hit him squarely on the head. Startled, he looked up into the branches and thought, "Forgive my arrogance! If it were a big pumpkin that fell out of the tree onto my head，it most certainly would have killed me! ” |
