男人和他的两个情人 The Man and His Two Sweethearts

男人和他的两个情人 The Man and His Two Sweethearts

A middle-aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time.  One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years.  The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs.  The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find.  Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. 
  Those who seek to please everybody please nobody. 

一个头发渐白的中年男人有两个情人，一个年轻的，一个上了年纪的。因为羞于跟比自己年轻的男人交往，上了年纪的女人决定只要男人来找她，她就得不断地拔去他的黑头发。相反，年轻的女人则不希望成为老男人的情人，就同样不断地拔去男人的白头发。这样，两人轮流地拔，男人终于变成了秃头。

  这故事说明，见人就献媚，谁也不讨好。