以小人之心度君子之腹。。。To gauge the heart of a gentleman with one’s own mean measure…
有时候有一些事情若隐若现，看得不是很清楚，我们最好不要随便下判断。。。而往往人又会偏向负面的想法！
最糟糕的是，本来高尚的事情被疑心重的人错解为恶劣行为，结果污蔑了一些好品德的人的名誉。。。
Sometimes certain pictures seem unclear or blurred, and we cannot see very clearly, then we had better not simply jump to our own conclusion… but somehow human beings tend to be more inclined to conclude negatively!
What is worse, an originally noble act can be misinterpreted by some suspicious people as something horrible, and consequently tarnishing the good reputation of some noble people…
中文有一句谚语：
“以小人之心度君子之腹”意思为：用卑劣的心意去猜测品行高尚的人。
对我们大家都是很好的提醒！
There is a Chinese proverb that says:
“To gauge the heart of a gentleman with one’s own mean measure” meaning: Judging unfairly a noble person with own despicable mind.
This is a very good reminder for all of us!
话说有一次，有一对父女，因为形象与品德良好，被邀请上台为“抽奖游戏”抽奖。。。箱子里面有上千张写着来宾的名字的小纸张，抽到谁的名字，谁就得奖。。。
气氛都很好很快乐，很多礼物分出去。。。
There was once, a father and daughter, because of their noble characters and good image, were invited on stage for a “prize-draw” programme… There were more than a thousand slips of paper with all the guests’ names on them, the guests would win a prize if their name was drawn out…
The atmosphere was good and happy, many gifts were given away…
可是事情却节外生枝。。。
节目进行到一半，有些宾客当场很生气的走掉，还散播了一些他们以为是事实的谣言，重重的破坏了这对父女的名誉！
But an unnecessary episode happened…
While the programme was in progress, some guests got up and left angrily, and spread some rumour which they thought was the truth, and severely damaged the reputation of this pair of father and daughter!
原来这些宾客看到一些画面，而随便下判断而污蔑了这父女的形象。。。
在抽奖时，父女有几次抽到自己或家人的名单。。。父女俩看了，打个眼色，笑笑，不当一回事就把名单又丢回去箱子里，因为觉得不好意思，也想把礼物让给别人。可是因为礼物很多，抽了很多次，后面还是抽到自己的家人的名字；主持人知道了，就在台上小声对他们说：我看上帝真的要赐福你们吧，就领受你的祝福吧！
所以父女才接受。结果有“小人之心”的宾客就散播谣言说，这对父女抽到别人的名字就把名单丢回去，抽到自己名字就报告出来为让自己得奖！这却是恰恰与事实相反！
The fact was these guests saw some scenes and they simply jumped to their own judgement and damaged the reputation of the father and daughter…
During the drawing out of names, the father and daughter team found that the names they drew out were their own name or their family members’… When they saw that, they signalled to each other and smiled and threw the names back into the box without thinking much of it as they thought it was not very nice to take the prize themselves and they had better give others a chance.
But because there were a lot of prizes to be given away, after a while, incidentally they still drew out their family members’ names. When the MC saw that, he said softly to them on stage: Well, I guess God really wants to bless you, just receive the blessing!
Only then, the father and daughter accepted. However, those guests with a “mean thought” spread the rumour and said the father and daughter threw back other people’s names but announced own names to receive the prizes! That was completely the opposite!
所以我说：
人啊！人啊！不知道真相就不要乱讲话啊！
你眼睛所看到的未必是事实，而你心里所想的为什么一定要是诡诈的呢？
So I say:
O people! Do not simply speak when you do not know the truth!
What you see with your eyes may not be the truth, and why must the thought in your heart be something wicked?
