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从前，有一个牧人，他有一大群羊。每天早晨，他都把羊赶出羊圈，到山坡上去牧放；到了晚上再把羊赶回来。 牧人有这么多羊，可是他很贪心，还想要更多的羊。靠母羊生小羊，牧人觉得太慢了，希望能一下子多出许多羊来。 这天，牧人放羊时，发现有十多只野山羊跑进了自己的羊群里。他不动声色，慢慢地把羊群赶回来，最后把野山羊和自己的羊一起赶进了羊圈。 看着羊圈里一下子多出十多只羊，牧人高兴极了。他想：“哈哈，今天我真幸运，要是每天都能增加十多只羊，不用几个月，我就发大财啦！ ” 第二天，突然刮起了风暴，顷刻间天昏地暗，飞沙走石。“看样子，今天是不能出去放羊了。”牧人叹了口气，去羊圈看了看。 羊群早就饿了，一见牧人过来，咩咩叫个不停，都在向他要草吃呢！可是新添了十几只羊，储存的干草不够吃了，这可怎么办呢？ 牧人心想：“野山羊是刚来的，如果不喂饱，他们会偷偷溜走的。”于是，他在野山羊面前堆了足够的草料，却只分了一点干草给自己的羊。 幸好，风暴第二天就停息了，牧人提着鞭子，高高兴兴地把所有的羊都赶到山坡上吃草。不料那些野山羊却一个个上了山坡，飞快地溜走了。 牧人气得跳脚大骂：“野山羊啊野山羊，你们这些忘恩负义的家伙，风暴来时，我对你们特殊照顾；现在风暴过了，你们却扔下我跑了，” 一只野山羊回过头来说：“正因为你给我们特殊照顾，我们更要逃走。昨天你待我们比长久和你在一起的羊还要好，可见你是个喜新厌旧的人。假如以后又有别的野山羊来，你也将同样地厚待他们，而苛待我们了。” 故事哲理： 有些人对待朋友、部属也是如此，总是用尽办法去收买他的心，以达致个人目的，一旦目的达到，便由厚转苛了。 要像野山羊般明智，不因优裕的待遇而迷失自己。 因为一时的满足，可导致无穷的痛苦啊！ The Goatherd and the Wild Goats Once upon a time, there was a goatherd who kept a large flock of goats. Every morning, he led his goats out to graze on the slope. In the evening, he shooed them back to the pen. The greedy goatherd wanted to keep more and more goats. He felt that the she-goats gave birth too slowly. One day, while in the pasture, the goatherd found a dozen wild goats mixing with his own herd. He hurried the goats back and locked them up all together in the pen. The goatherd was overjoyed looking at those wild goats which came out of nowhere. He thought, “I，m so lucky today. If I can add an extra dozen goats every day, I’ll be making a fortune in months!” The next day, the weather was stormy. “Looks like the goats can，t go to graze today,” he sighed as he made his rounds at the pen. The hungry goats kept baaing at the goatherd as if they were asking for grass! Now that there were extra new goats waiting to be fed, the hay was running out of stock. The goatherd thought, “The wild goats are the newcomers. They will run away if I do not feed them.” So he allocated a large quantity of grass to them, leaving only a small fraction for his own flock. Fortunately, the storm subsided the following day. The goatherd turned all his goats out happily to the slope for grazing. Much to his astonishment, the wild goats climbed up the slope one after another and fled in no time. The goatherd was so angry that he cursed, “You ungrateful wild goats, I provided you special care during the storm. Now that the storm is over，you just run off!” A wild goat heard this. He turned around and said, “We have to escape just because you gave us special care. Remember, yesterday you treated us much better than those goats you have been keeping for so long. Suppose you get a new batch of wild goats one day, they would become a privileged group and we the old ones would suffer.” Some people forget to show appreciation of thinks taken for granted. |
