英语智慧背囊 13-笼中之蟹

[00:01.26]Keep the Trolls Away from your Goals别让小人挡了你的道
[00:04.64]There is a type of crab that cannot be caught
[00:09.48]—it is agile and clever enough to get out of any crab trap.
[00:13.74]And yet, these crabs are caught by the thousands every day,
[00:17.70]thanks to a particular human trait they possess.
[00:21.20]The trap is a wire cage with a hole at the top.
[00:24.80]Bait is placed in the cage, and the cage is lowered into the water.
[00:29.64]One crab comes along, enters the cage, and begins munching on the bait.
[00:34.98]A second crab joins him. A third. Crab Thanksgiving.
[00:40.15]Eventually, however, all the bait is gone.
[00:43.43]The crabs could easily climb up the side of the cage and through the hole,
[00:48.05]but they do not.
[00:49.25]They stay in the cage. Other crabs come along and join them
[00:53.50]—long after the bait is gone. And more.
[00:56.93]Should one of the crabs realize there is no further reason to stay in the trap
[01:02.05]and attempts to leave,
[01:03.48]the other crabs will gang up on him and stop him.
[01:06.65]They will repeatedly pull him off the side of the cage.
[01:10.29]If he is persistent, the others will tear off his claws to keep him from climbing.
[01:15.31]If he persists still, they will kill him.
[01:19.05]The crabs—by force of the majority—stay together in the cage.
[01:23.74]The cage is hauled up, and it’s dinnertime on the pier.
[01:28.36]The chief difference between these crabs and humans
[01:31.64]is that these crabs live in water and humans on land.
[01:35.24]Anyone who has a dream—one that might get them out of what they perceive to be a trap
[01:41.61]— had best beware of the fellow-inhabitants of the trap.
[01:45.55]The human crabs (we call them trolls) do not usually use physical force
[01:51.80]—although they are certainly not above it. They generally don’t need it, however.
[01:57.51]They have more effective methods at hand, and in mouth—doubt, ridicule, sarcasm, humiliation,
[02:05.18]and dozen others not listed in our dictionary.
[02:08.57]The point is to manage to keep the trolls away from your goals.