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The Land of the Halt
瘸子之鄉
Many years since in a small territory, there was not one of the inhabitants who did not stutter when he spoke, and halt in walking; both these defects, moreover, were considered accomplishments.
很多年前，在一個很小的地方，住在那里的所有居民都有口吃且瘸著腿走路，而這兩種缺陷居然還被視為才能。
A stranger saw the evil, and thinking how they would admire his walking, went about without halting, after the usual manner Of our race.
一個外地人到了那里，看到了這樣的缺陷，以為那里的居民會羨慕他的走姿。于是，他沒有跛腳，而是按照正常人的走姿走來走去。
Every one stopped to look at him, and all those who looked, laughed, and holding their sides to repress their merriment, shouted,
當地人都停下來看他，都哈哈大笑起來。最后，他們好不容易忍住笑喊道：
"Teach the strenger how to walk properly! " The stranger considered it his duty to cast the reproach from himself. "
“來教教這個外地人怎樣正確地走路吧” 這個外地人覺得自己有責任反駁他們：你們才是瘸子，
You halt, he cried, "It is not I, you must accustom yourselves to leave off so awkward a habit!"
他高聲喊道：“不是我，你們必須改掉這種難看的走姿！”
This only increased the uproars, when they heard him speak; he did not even stammer; this was sufficient to disgrace him, and he was laughed at throughout the country.
這使當地人更加嘩然大笑。因為他們聽他說話居然還不口吃！這真讓人覺得丟臉啊。他所到之處，都會遭到別人的嘲笑。
