高年级passage8. Everybody's business is nobody's business

Passage 8： Everybody’s Business Is Nobody’s Business 人人之事没人管

There are four people named everybody, somebody, anybody, and nobody. There was an important job to be done, and everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was everybody’s job. Everybody thought anybody could do it. But nobody realized that everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have done. Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

有四个人，名字叫“每个人”、“某个人”、“任何人”和“没有人”。有一件重要的工作需要完成，“每个人”被叫去做这项工作。“每个人”肯定“某个人”会做这件事。“任何人”本来都可以做这件事，但却“没有人”去做。“某个人”很生气，因为这是“每个人”的事。“每个人”都认为“任何人”能做这件事。但“没有人”认识到“每个人”都不会去做。最后，当“没有人”做“任何人”本来可以做的事，“每个人”怪“某个人”。