星期三 阴 5～16℃
The Farmer and the Cranes
from http://classics.mit.edu/Aesop/fab.1.1.html#272
Some cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, "It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do."
If words suffice not, blows must follow.
这则故事让我想起《三国演义》中姜维射死郭准的情节。二人各骑一马，郭准在后面追赶姜维。姜维先是回身空射两箭，郭准躲了两次，见是空射，不再有防心，并回了一箭。姜维用手接住郭准射来的箭，佯装被射中，冷不防再射郭准，郭准以为又是空射，没有躲避，被射中脑门，当场毙命。
使其松懈，然后可击。故，万不可大意。
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