庄子的发现

• 作 者: 庄炜琳
• 机 构: 福建省厦门市集美中学高二年级2班 (361021)
• 出 处: 新作文(高中版)
• 发表日期: 2004年Z1期
• 关键词: 斧斤 历史人物 《项链》 仲由 玛蒂尔德 亲自出马 三迁 文学作品 孔丘 政治庇护

庄子对树木的寿命长短是有研究的,他老人家曾告诉弟子,树木不“材”者,大多数可以自得终老;而成材之林,“未及终于天年而夭于斧斤,此材之患也。”由此观之,不“才”之木反而更好喽?错也,倘那伐木工心血来,偏偏喜欢奇形怪状之树呢?不“才”之木不也一样要夭于斧斤吗?所以,结局并不是惟一的,如果

Zhuangzi has studied the length of life of the trees. The old man once told his disciples that most of the trees were not “material”. Most of them could live for the rest of their lives; the woods of the wood became “the last but not the least.” In this view, the wood that does not “have to do it” is even better. Wrong, too, if the hard work of the lumberjack, why does it not like the odd-shaped tree? So, the outcome is not unique, if