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And yet, in his earlier days, before he was so entirely possessed of this foolish desire for riches, King Midas had shown a great taste for flowers. He had planted a garden in which grew the biggest and sweetest and most beautiful roses that anyone ever saw or smelled. These roses were still growing in the garden, as large, as lovely, and as fragrant as when Midas used to pass whole hours gazing at them and inhaling their perfume. But now, if he looked at them at all, it was only to imagine how much the garden would be worth if each of the many rose-petals were a thin plate of gold.
然而，在他早年，在他完全被這種愚蠢的財富欲望所支配之前，邁達斯國王對鮮花表現出極大愛好。他種了一個花園，里面長著最大、最甜、最美麗的玫瑰。這些玫瑰還在花園里生長著，它們又大又可愛，又芳香，就像邁達斯過去常常一連幾個小時盯著花朵，吸著香氣。但是現在，如果他把它們全部看一遍，他所能想到的只是:如果這許多玫瑰花瓣中的每一朵都是一薄片金子，那么這個花園將會多么值錢啊!
