鹰和箭

类别：寓言

雄鹰被猎人射中后，发现致命的箭尾竟装着自己的羽毛，感叹往往是自己帮了敌人。

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An eagle was flying high above the mountains, 一只鹰在群山的高空飞翔，

looking down at the world. 俯瞰着下方的世界。

Far below, a hunter raised his bow and waited. 在遥远的地面上，一个猎人举起了弓，静静等待着。

The eagle never heard the arrow coming. 鹰完全没有察觉到箭射过来的声音。

It hit him in the chest, 箭正中它的胸膛，

and he fell slowly to the earth. 它缓缓地跌落向地面。

As he lay there, 当它躺在地上时，

he looked at the arrow that had brought him down. 看着那支将自己射落的箭。

Then he noticed something that hurt more than the wound. 接着，它注意到了一件比伤口更让它心痛的事。

The end of the arrow was fitted with feathers, 箭尾上插着羽毛，

to make it fly straight. 那是为了让箭飞得笔直。

And they were eagle feathers. 而那正是鹰的羽毛。

Perhaps they were even his own, dropped on some mountainside long ago. 甚至可能就是它自己很久以前落在某个山头上的。

"So this is how it ends," he said quietly. “原来这就是结局啊，”它轻声说道。

"Not by my enemy's strength, but with a little help from myself." “不是败在敌人的强大，而是我自己帮了忙。”

It's a hard thing to admit. 承认这一点确实很残忍。

But very often, 但很多时候，

we hand our enemies the weapons they use against us. 正是我们亲手把对付自己的武器，递到了敌人手里。