Master0sifu Fable 寓言：The kingand his stories

Once there was a king. He likes to writestories, but his stories were not good. As people were afraid of him, they allsaid his stories were good.

从前有一个国王,他喜欢写故事,但是他写的故事很不好。人们怕他,都说他的故事好。

 

One day the king showed his stories to afamous writer. He waited the writer to praise these stories. But the writersaid his stories were so bad that he should throw them into fire. The king gotvery angry with him and sent him to prison.

有一天国王把他的故事给一名作家看,他想要作家赞扬他的这些故事,而作家说他的故事是如此的差以至于该扔进火里。国王很生气,把他送到监狱。

 

After some time, the king set him free.Again he showed him some of his new stories and asked what he thought of them.

After reading them, the writer at onceturned to the soldiers and said: “ Take me back to prison, please.”

过了些日子,国王给了作家自由。国王重新将自己的一些新故事给作家看并问他感觉怎么样。

作家看了之后立刻转身对士兵说着：“请把我送回监狱吧。”

 

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