豹子和蟒蛇都盯上了同一只羚羊。

原文英文

The Python and the Leopard

In a primeval forest, a python and a leopard both set their sights on the same antelope. The leopard stared at the python, and the python stared at the leopard, each plotting their own move.

The leopard thought: "If I want to eat the antelope, I must first eliminate the python."

The python thought: "If I want to eat the antelope, I must first eliminate the leopard."

So, at almost the same moment, the leopard lunged at the python, and the python lunged at the leopard.

Biting the python's neck, the leopard thought: "If I don't bite with all my strength, I will be strangled to death by the python."

Coiling around the leopard's body, the python thought: "If I don't squeeze with all my strength, I will be bitten to death by the leopard."

Thus, both fought with all their might.

In the end, the antelope walked away peacefully, while the leopard and the python both collapsed dead.

A hunter who witnessed this struggle remarked with deep emotion, "If both had lunged at the prey instead of each other and shared the food, neither would have died; if both had walked away and abandoned the prey, neither would have died; if one had walked away while the other lunged at the prey, neither would have died; if both had let go once they realized the gravity of the situation, neither would have died. Their tragedy lies in turning what should have been compromise into a life-and-death struggle."

Many tragedies in life often stem from such conflicts.