丢了铁锹的人寓言故事
一个人在他的葡萄园里掘土，有一天，要开始工作时发现铁锹没了。他以为可能是被某个工人偷走了，就过去质问他们，但工人们一个个都否认偷了铁锹。尽管工人都否认了，可他依然不相信，一再坚持所有人都应该到城里的寺庙去发誓，自己没有犯盗窃罪。这是因为他对小镇上的神灵没有什么概念，以为小偷逃不过城里寺庙精明神灵的检测。他们刚走进大门，就听到了悬赏缉拿从寺庙偷东西的.小偷。
“好吧，”这人自言自语地说，“我最好还是赶快回家吧。如果这些庙里的神都无法找到盗窃寺庙东西的贼，他们也不太可能告诉我是谁偷了我的铁锹。”
【丢了铁锹的人英文版】
A Man was engaged in digging over his vineyard，and one day on coming to work he missed his Spade.Thinking it may have been stolen by one of his labourers，he questioned them closely，but they one and all denied any knowledge of it.He was not convinced by their denials，and insisted that they should all go to the town and take oath in a temple that they were not guilty of the theft.This was because he had no great opinion of the simple country deities，but thought that the thief would not pass undetected by the shrewder gods of the town.When they got inside the gates the first thing they heard was the town crier proclaiming a reward for information about a thief who had stolen something from the city temple.“Well，’’said the Man to himself“it strikes me I had better go back home again.If these town gods can’t detect the thieves who steal from their own temples，it’S scarcely likely they can tell me who stole my Spade.”
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