双语寓言故事（三百一十八）

The Nightingale

A man caught some nightingales. He put them in a cage. The nightingales in the cage have nothing to do, they are always humming a song in a daze. They probably had nothing else to do but sing, not because they were in a good mood, but because they were bored.

There is a particularly depressed nightingale in the cage. It was unhappy all day long, because it missed its lover. He wept all day long because he missed him so much. So it went on for a while, and slowly it began to change.

"Cheer up! "What will happen if you go on like this? A fool cries in the face of difficulties. A wise man will find a way to solve them when he faces them. In order to change my fate, I have figured out a way. If you think about it, he didn't bring us here to eat us. Maybe he just likes to hear us sing. I thought if he liked our singing so much, we'd sing him the sweetest song, and maybe he'd be in a good mood and set us free."

The poor nightingale, in order that she might go out and see her lover whom she had been longing for night and day, took her advice, and she too began to sing, trying to please her master with the sweetest sounds.

So has its fate really changed? No, only to make its fate more painful. For those birds that did not sing well, the master quickly opened the cage and set them free. But the poor nightingale was never let go by her master, because she sang so beautifully.

When encountering difficulties, we should grasp the nettle, face them with a positive and optimistic attitude, and find the right way and way to solve the problem.

夜莺

一个人抓到了几只夜莺，他把它们关到了笼子里。笼子里的夜莺没有什么事情可做，它们总是哼着歌曲发呆。除了唱唱歌，它们恐怕再也没有别的事情可做了，唱歌绝不是因为它们心情好，只是为了打发无聊的时光罢了。

笼子里有一只特别沮丧的夜莺，它整日整日地闷闷不乐，因为它想念它的爱人了。由于思念心切，它终日以泪洗面。就这样过了一段日子，它慢慢地开始转变了。

“打起精神来吧! ” 小夜莺说，“你这样下去会有什么结果呢。傻瓜才会在困难面前哭泣呢，聪明人面对困难时一定会找解决困难的办法。为了改变我的命运，我已经想好办法了。你想想看，他把我们抓来肯定不是要吃掉我们。他也许是喜欢听我们唱歌罢了。我想，既然他那么喜欢我们的歌声，那么我们就应该唱最动听的歌给他听，说不定哪天他心情大好，就把我们放了呢！”

可怜的夜莺为了早日出去，去见它日日夜夜苦苦思念的人儿，就听从了那只小夜莺的建议，它也开始唱起歌来了，它极力以最动听的声音来博得主人的喜欢。

这样，它的命运真的会有所改观吗？没有，反而使得它的命运更加痛苦了。对于那些唱歌不怎么样的鸟儿，主人很快就打开笼子，把它们放走了。而那只可怜的夜莺，主人却一直没有把它放走，就是因为它的歌声实在是太动听了。

遇到困难时，我们要迎难而上，以积极、乐观的心态去面对，还要寻找正确的方法和途径解决问题。