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Looking at the poor broken cask, the single ragged garment, and the rough figure lying on the ground, he said: "Is there anything I can do for you, Diogenes?"
他看了看那個破破爛爛的桶以及第歐根尼那唯一一件破破爛爛的衣服，還有那躺在地上不修邊幅的人，他問道第歐根尼，有什么需要我幫忙的嗎？”
Yes, said the Dog. "Stand to one side. You're blocking the sunlight."
“好吧，”那只“狗”說，“閃到一邊去，你擋住了我的陽光。”
There was an amazed silence. Slowly, Alexander turned away. A titter broke out from the elegant Greeks. The Macedonian officers, after deciding that Diogenes was not worth the trouble of kicking, were starting to guffaw and nudge one another. Alexander was still silent. To those nearest him he said quietly, "If I were not Alexander, I should be Diogenes." They took it as a paradox. But Alexander meant it. He understood Cynicism as the others could not. He was what Diogenes called himself, a "citizen of the world." Like Diogenes, he admired the heroic figure of Hercules, who labored to help mankind while all others toiled and sweated only for themselves. He knew that of all men then alive in the world only Alexander the conqueror and Diogenes the beggar were free.
人們驚訝得說不出話來。亞歷山大慢慢地轉過身來。舉止優雅的希臘人當即發出一陣竊笑。馬其頓軍官覺得第歐根尼不值得自己用腳踢打，于是也互相用肘輕推著哄笑起來。這時，亞歷山大仍然沉默著。接著，他平靜地對離自己最近的人說如果我不是亞歷山大，我愿做第歐根尼。”他們以為這話自相矛盾。但亞歷山大說此話自有他的道理。他能理解別人不理解的“犬儒主義”。像第歐根尼自封的一樣，亞歷山大也是一位“世界公民”。和第歐根尼一樣，他也崇拜英雄赫拉克勒斯。當別人都只為自己的利益費盡心機時，赫拉克勒斯卻在為人類而摩頂放踵。亞歷山大知道所有的世人中，只有他們——征服者亞歷山大和乞丐第歐根尼——是自由的。
