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文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2012-12-20 05:21 字体： [ ]　

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tradition has it that more than 2,000 years ago, there lived a young man in the shouling area of the state of yan. as his name is not known, we just call him shouling young man for convenience's sake.

his family members advised him to overcome this shortcoming, but he thought they were fond of ¹ their noses into his business and were ² to provide him with tuition fee. his relatives and neighbours ³ at him, saying that he would never be able to learn anything. as the days went by, he even began to doubt whether he should walk the way he did, for he felt more and more that his walking gestures were too clumsy and awkward.

one day,he met some people on the road who were chatting and laughing. one of them said that people in handan walked most ⁴. and that was just what he was most concerned about, so he hurreed towards the man and wanted to make further ⁶. to his surprise, when these people saw him, they stalked off laughing.

he could not picture to himself in what way their walking gestures were ⁵, no matter how hard he racked his parents one day. he went to handanwhich was far away to learn how to walk.

as soon as he arrived in handan, he was dazzled to find that everything was novel. he learned from the children there how to walk, because he thought that the children's walking gestures were lively and pleasing to the eye. he learnd from the old people there how to walk, because he thought the old people's walking gestures were steady. he learnd from the women there how to walk, because he thought the women's waying walking gestures were beautiful. that being the case with him, in less than half a month he even forgot how to walk. as he had already used up his traveling expenses, he had to crawl back home.

this story come from the article "autumn water" in the works of xhuang zi(zhuang zi was a famous ancient chinese philosopher of about 300b.c.). later the set phrase "initating another without success and losing what used to be one's own ability" is used to refer to acts of copying others mechanisally in disregard of specififc conditions.

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1
n. 刺，戳，袋 vt. 拨开，刺，戳 vi. 戳，刺，捅，搜索，伸出，行动散慢
参考例句：
he was poking at the rubbish with his stick. 他正用手杖拨动垃圾。 he spent his weekends poking around dusty old bookshops. 他周末都泡在布满尘埃的旧书店里。

2
adj.不情愿的
参考例句：
the natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。 his tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。

3
讥笑，冷笑( sneer的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
he sneered at people who liked pop music. 他嘲笑喜欢流行音乐的人。 it's very discouraging to be sneered at all the time. 成天受嘲讽是很令人泄气的。

4
ad.大大方方地；优美地
参考例句：
she sank gracefully down onto a cushion at his feet. 她优雅地坐到他脚旁的垫子上。 the new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line. 新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。

5
adj.优美的，优雅的；得体的
参考例句：
his movements on the parallel bars were very graceful.他的双杠动作可帅了! the ballet dancer is so graceful.芭蕾舞演员的姿态是如此的优美。

6
n.调查( inquiry的名词复数 )；疑问；探究；打听
参考例句：
he was released on bail pending further inquiries. 他获得保释，等候进一步调查。 i have failed to reach them by postal inquiries. 我未能通过邮政查询与他们取得联系。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

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