A woman was dissatisfied with her next-door neighbor. She told her friend that the neighbor was a poor housekeeper¹, her house was not clean and her children were dirty. Then she complained that one was almost disgraced by living near such a neighbor.

 

"Just look," she said, "at those clothes and those sheets and pillow cases she has hung outside all with black streaks²（条痕） up and down."

 

Her friend stepped to the window, raised it and looked out. Then he said: "It seems the clothes are very clean. The streaks that you see are on your own window."

 

有个女人对他的隔壁邻居很不满意，跟她的朋友说这个邻居不是个好主妇，说她家里不干净，孩子们都脏。还抱怨说和这样的邻居住得这么近几乎是很不体面的。

 

她说：“你就看看吧，她挂在外面的那些衣服以及那些床单和枕头套，上上下下都有一些黑斑纹。”

 

她的朋友走到窗前去，推开窗子看了看外面，然后说：“那些衣服看来非常干净。你看到的那些斑纹都是你自己窗子上的。”

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