The Picture Is Half Good and Half Bad
An artist had painted a child holding a basket of fruit. A friend of his, who admired this picture, wishing to show its perfection, said to some persons who were examining it that the fruit appeared so natural that the birds came to peck at it. A countryman, who heard these praises, said:”If this fruit is as well represented as you say, it is not so with the child, since he does not frighten the birds.”
毀譽參半的畫
一位藝術家畫了張畫：一個孩子提著一籃水果。他的朋友很欣賞這幅畫，他很想告訴別人這畫的美妙之處，就對幾個正在細看畫的人說，畫中的水果畫得多么逼真，連鳥都會來啄的。一個村夫聽了這些贊美的話就說：“如果水果畫得真像你說的那樣好，那么小孩就畫得不怎么樣了，因為他滿意嚇住那些鳥。”
