丟了鐵鍬的人寓言故事範例

一個人在他的葡萄園裏掘土，有一天，要開始工作時發現鐵鍬沒了。他以爲可能是被某個工人偷走了，就過去質問他們，但工人們一個個都否認偷了鐵鍬。儘管工人都否認了，可他依然不相信，一再堅持所有人都應該到城裏的寺廟去發誓，自己沒有犯盜竊罪。這是因爲他對小鎮上的神靈沒有什麼概念，以爲小偷逃不過城裏寺廟精明神靈的檢測。他們剛走進大門，就聽到了懸賞緝拿從寺廟偷東西的.小偷。

“好吧，”這人自言自語地說，“我最好還是趕快回家吧。如果這些廟裏的神都無法找到盜竊寺廟東西的賊，他們也不太可能告訴我是誰偷了我的鐵鍬。”

【丟了鐵鍬的人英文版】

A Man was engaged in digging over his vineyard，and one day on coming to work he missed his king it may have been stolen by one of his labourers，he questioned them closely，but they one and all denied any knowledge of was not convinced by their denials，and insisted that they should all go to the town and take oath in a temple that they were not guilty of the was because he had no great opinion of the simple country deities，but thought that the thief would not pass undetected by the shrewder gods of the they got inside the gates the first thing they heard was the town crier proclaiming a reward for information about a thief who had stolen something from the city temple.“Well，’’said the Man to himself“it strikes me I had better go back home these town gods can’t detect the thieves who steal from their own temples，it’S scarcely likely they can tell me who stole my Spade.”