雙語故事:病人和船主 The Patient and the Ship Owner
This incident occurred one morning outside Albert Sch-weitzer’s hospital in the African jungle. A patient had gone fishing in another man’s boat. The owner of the boat thought he should be given all the fish that were caught. Dr. Sch-weitzer said to the boat owner:
這件事，是一天早晨在非洲叢林中的艾伯特·施韋策的醫院外面發生的。一位病人乘了別人的船去捕魚，船主認爲，捕到的魚應悉數歸他。施韋策博士對船主說：“You are right because the other man ought to have asked permission to use your boat. But you are wrong because you are careless and lazy. You merely twisted the chain of your canoe round a palm tree instead of fastening it with a padlock. Of laziness you are guilty because you were asleep in your hut on this moonlit night instead of making use of the good opportunity for fishing.”
“你有對的一面，因爲別人要用你的船，理應先徵得你的同意；但你也有錯的一面，因爲你粗心大意，而且懶惰。你只把獨木舟的鏈條繞在一棵棕櫚樹上，沒有用鎖鎖牢。對於懶惰，你是有愧的，因爲月明今宵，你關在屋裏睡大覺，卻沒有利用良機去捕魚。”He turned to the patient: “But you were in the wrong when you took the boat without asking the owner’s permission. You were in the right because you were not so lazy as he was and you did not want to let the moonlit night go by without making some use of it.”
他又轉向那位病人說：“但是，你未徵得船主的許可便動用了他的船，在這點上你是不對的。你也有對的一面，因爲你不像他那樣懶惰，你不想讓這月夜白白溜走而不去利用它。”
Dr. Schweitzer divided the catch among the fisherman, the boat owner, and the hospital.
施韋策博士把捕來的魚分給了漁夫、病人和醫院三方。
