Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.
妇人和狼
The Mother and the Wolf
一天早上,一头饥肠辘辘的狼在森林里四处寻找食物。当他经过一所房子的时候,他听到一位母亲对她的孩子说:“你要乖乖的,不要吵,要不然我就把你丢到外面,让狼吃了你。”狼就信以为真,果真站在门外一直等候。到了傍晚,狼又听到母亲对她的孩子说:“乖孩子,你现在很安静,如果有狼敢闯进来,我们就把他杀死。”狼一听这些话,急忙转身逃跑了。狼回到洞里之后,他的妻子看到他饥寒交迫的样子,很是不解,就问他到底发生了什么事情。他回答说:“我真是愚蠢极了,竟然相信一位妇人的话!”
不要相信敌人的承诺。
A famished Wolf was prowling about in the morning in search of food. As he passed the door of a cottage built in the forest,he heard a Mother say to her child,“Be quiet,or I will throw you out of the window,and the Wolf shall eat you.” The Wolf sat all day waiting at the door. In the evening he heard the same woman fondling her child and saying,“You are quiet now,and if the Wolf should come,we will kill him.” The Wolf,hearing these words,went home,gasping with cold and hunger. When he reached his den,Mistress Wolf inquired of him why he returned wearied and supperless,so contrary to his wont. He replied,“Why,forsooth!Use I gave credence to the words of a woman!”