Waiting a hare besides a stump
        In song ,there was a peasant who planted crops on the field. One day, a hare ran into a stump and broke its nake . Ridiculously, the peasant thought he need not work form then on if there was a hare died every day . So he waited on the edge of the field but there was no stupid hare again. And he was laughed by the song people.
                                                                                     20041789

                                             Waiting a hare besides a stump
        In song ,there was a peasant who planted crops on the field. One day, a hare ran into a stump and broke its nake . Ridiculously, the peasant thought he need not work form then on if there was a hare died every day . So he waited on the edge of the field but there was no stupid hare again. And he was laughed by the song people.
                                                                                                                   20041789

                                           Waiting for A Dumb Luck
A peasant of Song was working in his field where there was a stump. He saw a hare crush into the stump and died with its neck fractured. The peasant therefore stopped working from then on and just waited another hare beside the stump , wishing himself get another such plain dumb luck. he would never get it again and he was mocked by Song people.

                                                  Liumiao
                                20041795           liumiao

                                 Waiting for the hare beside the stump
A peasant of Song(a country in ancient china) was working in the field . He saw a hare run into  the stump which was in the field. The hare’s neck was broken and died. He thought such thing would happen again. So he waited beside the stump without working. But there would be no another such hare ,and he became a laughingstock in Song.
                               20041800

Waiting for Hare beside the Stump
   There was a peasant whose field existed stumps in Warring States. A hare had died from rushing the stump,when it passd   through the field.Therefore the peasant put down the plough-like farm implement waiting for next hare beside thr stumps.Hare couldn't appear at the same place,but the peasant 　was laughed at by all the people of Song.

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守株待兔(韩非子 五蠢)
   宋人有耕者，田中有株，兔走触株，折颈而死。因释其耒而守株，冀复得兔。兔不可复得，而身为宋国笑。
白话翻译
    有个耕田的宋国人，在田里有截树樁子，一条兔子跑过来，碰到树樁子，碰断了脖子就死了。耕田的人于是就放下他的犁去守着树樁子，希望再得到兔子。兔子他再也得不到，他自己反倒被宋国人嘲笑了。
WAITING FOR A HARE AT THE TREE STUMP
    There was a person in the state of Song who tilled the land; in his field was a tree stump. A hare ran by, dashed into the tree stump, broke its neck, and then died. The person tilling the field these upon put down his plough in order to watch the tree stump, hoping to get another hare. He could not get a hare again; instead he was laughed at by the people of Song.