格列佛遊記3 -Gulliver's Travels 3

  飛島上的奇人

 有一次，格列佛乘船時，抬頭看見一座會漂浮的島嶼！島上還有人住，他好奇地登上去。

 飛島上的人外表很奇怪，他們的眼睛一隻看天，一隻看地，腦袋裡全是數字和音符。他們常常心不在焉，連走路都差點撞到東西，還要僕人隨時拿「小鞭子」拍他們，提醒他們回神。

 島上的人最愛談天文、數學和音樂，他們甚至能算出月亮繞地球要多久，但卻不會煮飯或種田。島下的居民苦哈哈，因為飛島人只顧研究，卻忘了照顧大家。

 格列佛還參觀了他們的學院，裡面的人在做各種奇怪的實驗：

 有人想把黃瓜變成太陽光；有人試著從冰塊裡抽出火；還有人花好多年研究怎麼教豬會飛。結果，什麼都沒成功。

 格列佛看得直搖頭，他心裡想：「學問很重要，但如果不能幫助別人，那就只是空想罷了。」

 最後，格列佛離開飛島時，對自己說：「知識要讓生活更好，而不是讓人忘了真實的需要。」

☁️ Strange People on the Flying Island

On another voyage, Gulliver saw a floating island! Curious, he climbed aboard and discovered that the people there were strange. One eye always looked at the sky, the other at the ground, and their minds were filled with numbers and musical notes.

They were often absent-minded, nearly bumping into things, and their servants had to tap them with “tiny whips” to remind them to pay attention.

The islanders loved astronomy, math, and music. They could calculate how long the moon takes to orbit the Earth, but they didn’t know how to cook or farm. The people below suffered because the islanders focused only on study and neglected daily life.

Gulliver visited their academy, where people performed bizarre experiments: turning cucumbers into sunlight, extracting fire from ice, or teaching pigs to fly. None of it worked.

Gulliver shook his head and thought, “Knowledge is good, but if it doesn’t help others, it’s just empty imagination.”

When he left the flying island, he told himself: “Knowledge should improve life, not make people forget real needs.”