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短篇英文寓言故事 A very very long time ago, there were people wholived much longer than they do today. They lived many thousand years. At that time, the Enlightenment Being was born as a baby named Makhadeva. He lived 84,000 years as a child and crown prince. At the time of our story, he had been a young king for 80,000 years. One day, Makhadeva told the royal barber, If you see any gray hair on my head, you must tell me immediately! Of course, the barber promised to do so. Another 4,000 years passed, until Makhadeva had been a young king for 84,000 years. Then one day, while he was cutting the kings hair, the royal barber saw just one little gray hair on all the kings head. So he said, Oh my lord, I see one gray hair on your head. The king said,If this be so, pull it out and put it in my hand. The barber got his golden tweezers1镊子，小钳子 ,plucked out拔出 the single little gray hair, and put it in the kings hand. At that time, the king still had at least another 84,000 years left to live as an old king! Looking at the one gray hair in his hand, he became very afraid of dying. He felt like death was closing in on him, as if he were trapped in a burning house. He was so afraid, that the sweat rolled down his back, and he shuddered2发抖，战栗 . King Makhadeva thought, Oh foolish king, you have wasted all this long life and now you are near death. You have made no attempt to destroy your greed and envy, to live without hating, and to get rid of your ignorance by learning the truth and becoming wise. As he thought this, his body burned and the sweat kept rolling down. Then he decided3 once and for all一劳永逸地，彻底地 , Itis time to give up the kingship, be ordained4命令，注定 as a monk5, and practice meditation6! Thinking so, he granted the income of a whole town to the barber. It amounted to one-hundred-thousand per year. Then the king called his oldest son to him and said,My son, I have seen a gray hair. I have become old. I have