Life has its ups and downs.
开始行医的鞋匠
The Cobbler Turned Doctor
有一个鞋匠单靠制鞋、修鞋已经难以维持生计,生活越来越贫困,于是决定改行,他开始装成医生在异乡帮人看病。他出售一种解毒药,声称可以解百毒,并用各种花言巧语来为自己招揽生意。人们相信了他的谎言,还把他称为“名医”。他的生意越来越红火。
很不幸,一次鞋匠自己得了重病。正好,他所在地方的国王想要实验他的医术。国王拿起一杯装着水的杯子,对鞋匠说:“这里面掺着你自己的解毒药,现在我把它赏赐给你喝。”贪生怕死的鞋匠马上将自己卖假药的事情和盘托出:他只是靠人们的愚蠢赢得名誉的,根本没有真才实学。国王马上昭告臣民:“你们竟然如此放心地把自己的脑袋交给一个只会做鞋子的人,你们不觉得自己都犯错了吗?”
一定要小心那些不熟悉自己业务的人。
A Cobbler unable to make a living by his trade and made desperate by poverty,began to practice medicine in a town in which he was not known. He sold a drug,pretending that it was an antidote to all poisons,and obtained a great name for himself by long-winded puffs and advertisements.