葉公好龍
葉公好龍
子張去拜見魯哀公，過了七天魯哀公仍不理他。他就叫仆人去，說：“傳說你喜歡人才，因此，冒著風雪塵沙，不敢休息而來拜見你。 結(jié)果過了七天你都不理我，我覺得你所謂的喜歡人才倒是跟葉公喜歡龍差不多。據(jù)說以前葉子高很喜歡龍，衣服上的帶鉤刻著龍，酒壺、 酒杯上刻著龍，房檐屋棟上雕刻著龍的花紋圖案。他這樣愛龍成癖，被天上的真龍知道后，便從天上來到了葉公家里。龍頭搭在窗臺上探望 ，龍尾伸進了大廳。葉公一看是真龍，嚇得轉(zhuǎn)身就跑，好像掉了魂似的，臉色驟變，簡直不能控制自己。葉公并非真的喜歡龍呀！他所喜歡的只不過是那些似龍非龍的東西罷了！現(xiàn)在我聽說你喜歡英才，所以不遠千里跑來拜見你，結(jié)果過了七天你都不理我，原來你不是喜歡人才 ，你所喜歡的只不過是那些似人才非人才的人罷了。詩經(jīng)早說過：‘心中所藏，什么時候可以忘！’，所以很抱歉，我要離開了！”
后來，大家就用“葉公好龍”來形容一個人對外假裝自己很愛好某樣事物，其實私底下根本就不喜歡。
Professed love of what one really fears
In the Spring and Autumn Period (chūn qiū 春秋時期,770-476 B), there lived in Chu a person named Shen Zhuliang, who addressed himself as "Lord Ye (葉公)". It's said that this Lord Ye was very fond of dragons. The walls had dragons painted on them. The beams and pillars and the doors and the windows were all carved with them. As a result, his love for dragons was spread out. When the real dragon in heaven heard of this Lord Ye, he was deeply moved. He decided to visit Lord Ye to thank him. You might think Lord Ye would have been very happy to see a real dragon. But, in fact, at the sight of the creature, he was scared out of his wits and ran away as fast as he could. From then on, people knew that Lord Ye only loved pictures or carvings which look like dragons, not the real thing.
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