伊索寓言：小孩与画的狮子
The King's Son and the Painted Lion
A KING, whose only son was fond of martial exercises, had a dream in which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. Afraid the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace and adorned its walls for his amusement with all kinds of life-sized animals, among which was the picture of a lion. When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: "O you most detestable of animals! Through a lying dream of my father's, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a girl: what shall I now do to you?' With these words he stretched out his hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he might beat the lion. But one of the tree's prickles pierced his finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince fell down in a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set in, from which he died not many days later.
We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.
小孩与画的狮子
有个胆小的老人有个独生子，他勇敢而且天生喜欢打猎。有一次，老人梦见儿子悲惨地被狮子咬死。他极害怕这梦变为现实，便特别建造了一座悬空的漂亮房子，将儿子锁在里面，把他保护起来。为了让儿子高兴，老人在墙上画了各种各样的动物，其中也画有狮子。然而，那孩子越看画越烦恼。有一次，他站在狮子画的旁边，说道：「喂，你这可恶的野兽，为了你和我父亲荒唐的梦，我才被关在这种像牢房一样的房里。」说着说着，便挥动拳头用力向墙打去，好像要把那狮子打死。不料一根刺钻到他指甲里去了，他疼痛难忍，最后发炎引起高烧不退，没多久便死了。原本是一头画在墙上的狮子，竟把孩子害死了。这位父亲精心的安排对孩子有害无益。
这个故事带出的启示就是：人们要勇敢地去面对困难，而不要用甚么心计去回避它。
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