One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear,
一天，一位老人正在賣一頭大象。一位年輕人來到大象跟前慢慢的觀察著。老人上前在年輕人耳邊輕語，
“Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it; then I will give you some meat.”
“在我把大象賣出去之前你一句話也不要說，那麼我會給你一些肉。”
“All right.” says the young man.
“好的。”那位年輕人說。
After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man some meat and says, “How can you see the bad ears of the elephant?”
老人賣出大象之後，他給了年輕人一些肉然後說，“你是怎麼看到大象的壞耳朵的？”
“I didn’t see the bad ears,” says the young man.
“我沒有看到壞耳朵，”年輕人說。
“Then why do you look at the elephant slowly?” asks the old man.
“那你為什麼要慢慢地看著大象？”老人問。
The young man answers, “Because I have never seen an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”
年輕人回答：“因為我之前從沒見過大象，我想知道它長什麼樣子。”
