??????/ An Essay on Horse by Han Yu

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( Note: Bo Le in Chinese legend is God of Horse who keeps horses in Heaven. It’s said that in Spring and Autumn Period, there was someone called ?? who was very good at judging horses, especially judging a swift horse by its appearance. In his days, people gradually forgot his name, but simply called him as Bo Le. Nowadays, Chinese people call someone who is a good judge of talent as Bo Le .)???? An Essay on Horse??Writer: Han Yu(translated by studentyoung)http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/52623168.html?si=3 ????,????????????,????????????,??????,???????,???? ??? ??????,???????????????,????????????????????,?????? ??????,????????????,???????????In this world, we must have Bo Le first, and then we can have swift horses. Swift horses are always available, but Bo Le is hard to find.” Though swift horses are available, they’re disgraced for being handled by those ignorant servants, or die with rips in the same shabby barn, without being titled as “Swift Horse”.?????,???????????,?????????????,??????,???, ???,?????,?????????,???????? ??????,???????????????????????????????????(??)???? ,??????????,????,????,?????????????????,?????????? ????,????????????? Each day, Swift horses might consume grains a few times than those common ones do. Grooms, don’t know how swift they can be, feed them less than they need. Although these horses are swift ones, with an unsatisfied stomach, being lack of energy, they can’t turn their outstanding ability and their best side outward. They can’t be expected to work as well as those common ones, not to mention to be swift. ??????,???????,????????,?????,?:“?????”??!???????? ????!???,???????,???,??????????????,????,????????, (??)??????????:“???????!”?!??????????????????????? ?! One spurring them in a wrong way, feeding them with insufficient grain, not understanding their whinnying in heartbreak, but the one is still shouting, “No swift horses in this world!”, while cracking his whip in from of them. —— Sigh ~ ~! Are there really no swift horses? As a matter of fact, the one just knows nothing about them!Cheers!