道听途说

One day, a man named Mao Kong said to Ai Zi: A duck laid one hundred eggs at one time. Ai Zi didn’t believe him. Mao Kong added: Maybe there were two ducks. Ai Zi still didn’t believe him. Mao Kong went on saying: Maybe there were three ducks. And so he repeatedly changed his words until he increased the number of the ducks to ten. Once again, Ai Zi didn’t believe him. After a while, Mao Kong told Ai Zi another thing: Last month, a piece of meat which is thirty meters wide and twenty meters long fell down from the sky. Ai Zi didn’t believe it. Mao Kong changed his words again: That’s a twenty-meter-wide and ten-meter-long meat. Ai Zi still didn’t believe him. Finally, Ai Zi asked Mao Kong: Whose duck is it? And where is the meat? Mao Kong said: I heard all of them from others. Then Ai Zi told his students: It’s a bad habit of spreading rumors like Mao Kong.

一天，一个叫毛空的人告诉艾子：一只鸭子一次生了一百个蛋。艾子不相信。毛空又说：是两只鸭子生的。艾子还是不相信。毛空又说是三只鸭子生的，艾子也不相信……这样，最后一直增加到十只鸭子，艾子就是不信。过了一会儿，毛空又告诉艾子：上个月天上掉下一块三十米宽、二十米长的肉。艾子也不信，毛空又缩短到二十米宽、十米长，艾子依然不信。最后，艾子问毛空：你刚才说的鸭子是谁家的？肉掉到什么地方？毛空说：我说的话都是在路上听别人讲的。于是，艾子对他的学生们讲道：你们可不要像毛空那样道听途说！