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Once upon a time, four blind people wanted to know what an elephant looked like, but they couldn't see it and had to touch it with their hands.?
从前，有四个盲人很想知道大象是什么样子，可他们看不见，只好用手摸。
The fat blind first touched the elephant's teeth. He said, "I see, the elephant is like a big, thick, smooth radish."
胖盲人先摸到了大象的牙齿。他就说：“我知道了，大象就像一个又大、又粗、又光滑的大萝卜。”
The tall blind man touched the elephant's ears. "No, no, the elephant is obviously a big cattail fan!"

高个子盲人摸到的是大象的耳朵。“不对，不对，大象明明是一把大蒲扇嘛！”
He shouted. "You're just saying that elephants are just big pillars."

他大叫起来。“你们净瞎说，大象只是根大柱子。”
It turned out that the short blind man touched the elephant's leg. But the old blind man grumbled, "Well, an elephant is not that big, it's just a straw rope."

原来矮个子盲人摸到了大象的腿。而那位年老的盲人呢，却嘟嚷：“唉，大象哪有那么大，它只不过是一根草绳。”
It turned out that he had touched the tail of an elephant. Four blind men quarreled and said that what they felt was what the elephant really looked like. And actually? None of them was right.

原来他摸到的是大象的尾巴。四个盲人争吵不休，都说自己摸到的才是大象真正的样子。而实际上呢？他们一个也没说对。
Then we use the metaphor of "the blind touch the image" to look at the problem in order to generalize the whole.

后以“盲人摸象”比喻看问题以偏概全。



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1、英文
It means that only knowing the situation of things produces one-sidedness in understanding.?
意为由于只了解事物的局面，产生了认识上的片面性。
When people comment on a person, a TV play or a social phenomenon, they often draw conclusions because they only see part of it, which results in one-sidedness.?
人们在评论一个人、一部电视剧或一种社会现象，往往因为只看到局部而下结论，便造成了片面性。
To avoid this phenomenon, the only way is to observe more, understand more and not draw conclusions easily.
要避免这种现象，唯一的办法是多观察，多了解，不要轻易下结论。

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　　盲人摸象 The Blind Men and the Elephant

The Blind Men and the Elephant
A Hindoo Fable - by John Godfrey Saxe

I
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Thought all of them were blind).
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.

II
The FIRST approached the Elephant
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side
At once began to bawl:
'God bless me, but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!'

III
The SECOND, feeling of the tusk,
Cried 'Ho! What have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me 'tis mightly clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear.'

IV
The THIRD approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
'I see, 'quoth he, 'the Elephant
Is very like a snake!'

V
The FOURTH reached out his eager hand,
And felt about the knee,
'What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mightly plain, 'quoth he:
'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!'

VI
The FIFTH, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: 'E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most,
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!'

VII
The SIXTH no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
'I see, 'quoth he, 'the Elephant
Is very like a rope!'

VIII
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong.
Though each was partly in the right
And all were in the wrong.

IX
So, oft in theologic wars
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!

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　　The Blind Men and the Elephant

The Blind Men and the Elephant
A Hindoo Fable - by John Godfrey Saxe

I
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Thought all of them were blind).
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.

II
The FIRST approached the Elephant
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side
At once began to bawl:
'God bless me, but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!'

III
The SECOND, feeling of the tusk,
Cried 'Ho! What have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me 'tis mightly clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear.'

IV
The THIRD approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
'I see, 'quoth he, 'the Elephant
Is very like a snake!'

V
The FOURTH reached out his eager hand,
And felt about the knee,
'What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mightly plain, 'quoth he:
'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!'

VI
The FIFTH, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: 'E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most,
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!'

VII
The SIXTH no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
'I see, 'quoth he, 'the Elephant
Is very like a rope!'

VIII
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong.
Though each was partly in the right
And all were in the wrong.

IX
So, oft in theologic wars
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!

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