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through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be exhausted and remained
A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its
(Cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to
The man decided to help the butterfly and, with a pair of scissors, he cut
The Lesson of the Butterfly
absolutely stil.
のT、。
ie cocoon open, thus releasing the butterflv However, the buttertly's body
was very small and wrinkled and its wings were all crumpled.
The man continued to watch. hoping that. at any moment, the butterily
Would open its wings and fly away. Nothing happened. In fact, the buttertly
10 spent the rest of its brief life dragging around its shrunken body and shriveled
wings, incapable of flight.
What the man-
out of kindness and his eagerness to help
had failed
to understand was that the tight cocoon and the effort that the butterfly had
had to make in order to squeeze out of that tiny hole were Nature's way of
15 training the butterfly and of strengthening its wings.
7. wrinkle「~をしわにする」/ crumple 「~をしわくちゃにする」
10. drag around~= drag~ around [< drag:~を引きずる] / shrivel 「~をしなびさせる」
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