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Kangaroos and the Cage

yǒu

tiān

dòng
wù
yuán
de
guǎn

yuán
men
fā
xiàn
dài
shǔ
cóng
lóng


pǎo
chū
lái
le

yú
shì
kāi
huì
tǎo
lùn


zhì
rèn
wèi
shì
lóng

de
gāo
dù
guò


suǒ

tā
men
jué
dìng
jiāng
lóng

de
gāo
dù
yóu
yuán
lái
de
1
1

jiā
gāo
dào
2
2


jié
guǒ

èr
tiān
tā
men
fā
xiàn

dài
shǔ
hái
shì
pǎo
dào
wài
miàn
lái

suǒ

tā
men
yòu
jué
dìng
zài
jiāng
gāo
dù
jiā
gāo
dào
3
3



One day the staff members of a zoo called a meeting to discuss the problem--how to deal with the kangaroos that were found out of the cage. They came to the conclusion that the cage was placed too low and decided to raise it from one to two meters high. But the next day the kangaroos were still at large and they again raised the cage to three meters.

méi
xiǎng
dào
gé
tiān
jū
rán
yòu
kàn
dào
dài
shǔ
quán
pǎo
dào
wài
miàn

yú
shì
guǎn

yuán
men
dà
wèi
jǐn
zhāng

jué
dìng

bù
zuò
èr
bù
xīu

jiāng
lóng

de
gāo
dù
jiā
gāo
dào
1
1
0
0



Quite beyond their expectation the next morning they saw the kangaroos still free to go about. They were alarmed and determined to go to all the length by raising the cage to the height of ten meters.


tiān

cháng
jǐng
lù
鹿
hé

zhī
dài
shǔ
zài
xián
liáo



men
kàn

zhè
xiē
rén
huì
bù
huì
zài

xù
jiā
gāo

men
de
lóng


cháng
jǐng
lù
鹿
wèn


Later a giraffe, while chatting with some kangaroos, asked them, "Do you think they will go on raising your cage?"


hěn
nán
shuō


dài
shǔ
shuō


rú
guǒ
tā
men
zài

xù
wàng

guān
mén
de
huà


"Hard to say," said a kangaroo, "if they continue forgetting to fasten the cage door."

xīn
dé

shì
yǒu

běn
mò



qīng
zhòng



huǎn



guān
mén
shì
běn

jiā
gāo
lóng

shì
mò

shě
běn
ér
zhú
mò

dāng
rán
jìu
bù
dé
yào
lǐng
le

(What we can learn from the story is this: Everything has different aspects--one is fundamental and others are incidental; some important and others less important; some urgent and the rest can wait. In this case to fasten the door is fundamental and to raise the cage incidental. Preference for the latter will no doubt lead nowhere)


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