2014年8月31日星期日

Stories of Chinese word and term (5)

螳螂捕蝉,黄雀在后.the mantis stalking the cicada unaware of the oriole behind
The king of kingdom Wu was ready to invade kingdom Chu . Although he had clear chance but if a third states took advantage of the weak point, the result could be unthinkable. Many of his ministers advised him not to do it. But he insisted his opinion. Finally, he said, “I will kill this who persuade me again.”
A young aide of the king expected to stop his plan. As he was afraid of being behead, he just walking around the king’s garden every morning with a bow in his hand. After three days, the king came into notice the aide, he asked him, “Young man, why you come so early in the garden? Look the dew had wetted your cloth. What you are doing?”  
The aide said, “Your highest, today, I found a strange story. On one tree, a cicada was singing happily. It didn’t know that a mantis was ready to eat it; while as the mantis was going to catch the cicada; it didn’t aware behind it that an oriole was preparing to catch it also. The oriole concentrated on the mantis, yet it didn’t perceive that I was pulling the full bow and an arrow was point to it.
Hearing this, the king of kingdom Wu said, “Good, you tell me an every good story.”  
So he gave up the plan of invading kingdom Chu
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