One day, seated in the ancestral hall, King Hui of Liang saw a man leading an ox pass by. He asked: "Where are you taking the ox?"
The man leading the ox stopped and answered: "I am taking it to be slaughtered1 and will use its blood to paint the bell."
As King Hui heard this, he felt pity for the ox and said: "How can that be done? You are too cruel. Let it go at once. It is not guilty. How can you kill it? I cannot bear to see it panic-stricken, shedding2 tears and trembling before its death."
The man leading the ox asked: "Do you mean that I shall let the ox go and not paint the bell? Is that it?"
King Hui answered: "What are you saying? How can you not paint the bell! Let the ox go, but use a sheep instead."
一天，梁惠王坐在廟堂上，看到堂下有一個人牽著一頭牛走過，便問道：“你把牛牽到哪兒去?。俊?
牽牛的人停下來回答說：“我要把這頭牛牽去殺掉，用它的血來涂鐘?！?
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惠王聽了，對牛十分憐憫，說：“那怎么行呢！你們太殘忍了，趕快把牛放掉。它沒有罪，怎么能把它殺掉呢？我不忍心看到牛臨死前驚恐、流淚、戰(zhàn)栗的樣子?！?
牽牛的人問道：“您的意思是要我把牛放了，不必再涂鐘了，是嗎？”
惠王回答說：“你在說什么？鐘怎么能不涂呢！把牛放了，就換只羊吧！”
1 slaughtered
v.屠殺，殺戮，屠宰( slaughter的過去式和過去分詞 )
參考例句：
The invading army slaughtered a lot of people. 侵略軍殺了許多人。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》 Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered. 數(shù)百名無辜平民遭殘殺。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》 <a href=http://www.zequeka.cn/miniform.html>蘇州語文作文閱讀培訓</a>
2 shedding
n.脫落，蛻落v.流出( shed的現(xiàn)在分詞 )；流下；蛻皮；樹葉脫落
參考例句：
The factory is shedding a large number of jobs. 這家工廠正大批裁員。 The trees began shedding their leaves. 樹木開始落葉。 來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
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