Dan was the doorman of a club in a big city. Everyday, thousands of people passed his door, and a lot of them stopped and asked him, What's the time, please?
After a few months, Dan said to himself, I'm not going to answer all those stupid people any more. I'm going to buy a big clock and put it upon the wall here. Then he did so.
Now people aren't going to stop and ask me the time, he thought happily. But after that, a lot of people stopped, looked at the clock and then asked Dan, Is that clock right?
丹在一個大城市的某個俱樂部當守門人。每天都有數千人經過他的門口，而且許多人都會停下來問他:請問現在幾點?
幾個月后，丹想：我不想再回答這些蠢人提出的問題了，我要去買一只大鐘，把它掛在這兒的墻上。于是他買了一只鐘，把它掛在了墻上。
現在人們總不會再停下來問我時間了。他高興地想。可是打那以后，每天仍有許多人停下來，看看鐘，然后問丹：這鐘準嗎?
