主人根据母鸡下 蛋之后报唱的现象，以为所有的蛋都是那只唱鸡产的心，因此很偏爱 它巴，捉得蟑螂也专是喂给它吃。
Xie Yi There were two hens in a coop.
但日子一久，秘密揭穿了：原来那 只唱鸡下蛋很少，而不叫的那只却一天一个，且蛋刚落地就一声不响 地离开鸡窝，由那只唱鸡站在蛋边大喊大叫。
One was fond of cackling while the other liked to keep quiet.
闲聊时和朋友谈及此事，他以为我是言外之意不在鸡，而是在 论人。
As it is customary for a hen to cackle after laying an egg, the chicken raiser accordingly credited the cackler with all the eggs that had been laid.
其实，古人早就以鸡喻人了，《尚书牧暫》里就有 "牝鸡无 晨"3之句。
As a result, he became so partial to his favourite bird that he fed her with every cockroach he caught.
说到人，在我们中确是有很多沉默寡言的人，他们牢牢 蹲在自己的岗位上，夜以继日，埋头苦干，替国家创造了大量的物质 财富，为人民作出一项又一项的优异成绩。
With the passing of time, however, it became known that the cackler had in fact laid very few eggs while the non-cackler kept laying one egg a day.
他们像母鸡一样，吞的是 粗糠老菜，产下的是蛋，而且往往一声不响。
Every time, as soon as the latter laid an egg, she quit the coop quietly, leaving the former standing by the newly-laid egg shouting and yelling her head off.
但也有一种人，嘴尖 舌长，能说会道，自我吹嘘，滔滔不绝，像那只爱唱的母鸡一样，古 着个鸡窝不下蛋。
Once, when I chatted with a friend about this, he thought what I had in mind was not the hen, but men in general. As a matter of fact, our forefathers long ago already drew an analogy between the hen and man, as witness the Chinese idiom "No hen crows at dawn" (meaning "No woman is to usurp man's power") in The Book of History: Mu Shi.
个别恶劣的还窃取别人的成果去报喜称功，一点 不觉得惭愧。
It is true that there are among us many who stick to their posts and quietly immerse themselves in hard work day and night, creating enormous material wealth for the state and achieving one success after another for the people.
本来，考核一个人的成绩，不是听他唱得好听不好听，而是看他 "下蛋不下蛋"。
Like the above-mentioned good layer, they eat simple food, but lay eggs, often without making a fanfare.
但那善于炫耀和卖弄的人，生一个蛋就唱得像是生了 十个似的，只做出三分成绩就吹成十分，碰上个凡事只用耳朵听不用 眼睛看的糊涂长官，自然就博得了偏爱，于是一帆风顺，扶摇直上了。
There are among US, however, another kind of people who, armed with a glib tongue, indulge a in incessant self-glorification and, like the above-mentioned cackler, hold on to the coop without laying any egg.
而那些埋头"下蛋"的人，由于他们一声不响，默默无闻，就 很少为人所知，更不受重视。
Some few even go so far as to brazenly claim credit for work that was done by others.
因此，他们既没有"蟑螂"可吃，甚至 连个"下蛋的窝"也没有。
The proper way to evaluate a person is of course by watching whether or not he "lays eggs", not by listening to him singing his own praises.
喜唱或是爱静，本来只是人的一种个性，由于是长期养成的习 惯，要完全改过来也颇不容易，但是，在新长征的途程中，人的生命 到底有限，而探素宇宙奥秘的道路却又那样的无限和悠长，结果一天 到晚都用于高谈阔论，搞"假、大、空"，又哪有时间及精力去钻研 和攻关呢？
When a braggart lays one egg, he will talk in such a way as if he had laid ten eggs.
最重要的还是认真蹲在"窝"里，多为九亿人民"下蛋"。
When he puts in a tiny bit of work, he will talk as if he had done ten times as much.