A long time ago, there lived a wise man named Zun Nun in Egypt.

很久以前，在埃及住着一位名叫 Zun Nun 的智者。

Once there lived a wise man.

从前，有一位智者。

"That's great!" said the wise man.

智者说：“那太好了！”

The wise man was worried about his son's future.

那位智者担心他儿子的未来。

The wise man said, "I'm sorry to hear that."

智者说：“听到这一消息我很难过。”

For a wise man, a mistake is a lesson.

对聪明人来说，错误就是教训。

Long ago there lived a wise man who worked hard.

很久以前，有一位智者，他工作很努力。

The wise man asked, "When did your family leave you?"

智者问道：“你的家人什么时候离开你的？”

One day, Peter went to ask a wise man for help.

一天，彼得向一位智者寻求帮助。

How will people know you're really a special and wise man?

人们怎么知道你真的是一个独特并且聪明的人呢？

As the years passed, the wise man was more and more worried.

随着时间的流逝，智者越来越担心。

There was once a very wise man who lived in ancient times.

在古代，曾经有一位非常聪明的人。

"We should encourage people to use WeChat Pay more." said a wise man.

“我们要鼓励大家多使用微信支付。”一位智者说。

Then the wise man took a piece of paper and drew a straight line down the middle.

然后，智者拿出一张纸，在中间画了一条直线。

He said to the wise man, "I don't have anything left, so I don't want to live."

他对智者说：“我已经一无所有了，我不想活了。”

That's the second one on the right side—You have freedom! said the wise man, writing it down.

这是右边的第二个——你自由了！智者说着，把它写了下来。

The wise man replied, "Because I left the stick that I had used to measure my feet at home."

智者回答说：“因为我把量脚的棍子忘在家里了。”

The wise man explained what had happened to the shopkeeper, who asked, "Why didn't you buy the shoes yesterday?"

这位智者向店主解释了所发生的事情，店主问：“你昨天为什么不买这双鞋？”

The wise man said, "All the books say shoes must be bought with the exact measurements of the shoes you already own."

智者说：“所有的书都说，买鞋必须按照你现有鞋子的精确尺寸。”

The wise man replied calmly.

智者平静地回答。

As a wise man once said, we are all ultimately alone.

正如一位智者曾经说过的，我们最终都是孤独的。

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for nought.

聪明的人不会平白无故地浪费这么好的东西。

A young man went to visit a wise man who lived deep in the mountain.

一个年轻人去拜访一位住在深山里的智者。

As an old saying goes: "a wise man is always seizing the chance and turning it into success."

俗话说：“聪明人总是能抓住机会并将其转化为成功。”

The young man still wanted to ask something, but the wise man stopped him and said, "When we are talking about the importance of today, we have wasted a lot of it."

年轻人还想问点什么，智者拦住了他，说：“当我们谈论今天的重要性时，我们已经浪费了很多时间。”

A wise man is never confused.

智者不惑。

The wise man has no perplexities.

贤者，不惑也。

The half-filled bottle sloshes; the full bottle remains still.; The dabbler in knowledge chatters away; the wise man stays silent.

一瓶子不响， 半瓶子晃荡。

This madman is a great wise man.

这疯子倒是伟大的哲人。

I find him a very wise man.

我发现他是一个很聪明的人。