伊索寓言：牧人与野山羊
The Goatherd and the Wild Goats
A GOATHERD, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night. The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold. He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own. When the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains. The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd. One of them, turning about, said to him: "That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves."
Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.
牧人与野山羊
牧人把羊群赶到牧场去放牧，看见有几只野山羊混杂在羊群里。傍晚，他将所有的羊都赶进羊圈。第二天，暴风雨大作，不能到牧场去放牧，只好在羊圈里饲养。他丢给自己的羊一点点食料，仅只限於不至饿死，而为了想把外来的那几只野山羊留下，成为自己的，他却给他们很多食料。雨停后，牧人把所有的羊都赶向牧场，来到山下时，那些野山羊全都逃跑了。牧人指责他们忘恩负义，得到了特殊照顾，却仍要逃走。野山羊回过头来说：「正因如此，我们更要小心谨慎了。因为你特殊照顾我们这些昨天刚来的，而过於冷淡你以前一直饲养的。显而易见，今后再有其他的野山羊来，你一定又会冷落我们去偏爱他们。」
这个故事带出的启示就是：喜新厌旧的人的友谊是不可信的。因为即使同他相交很久，他一有新交，便会冷落旧交。
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