西施未必解亡吳,祇為讒臣害覇圖。
早使夫差誅宰嚭,不應麋鹿到姑蘇。
西施未必解亡吳,祇為讒臣害覇圖。
早使夫差誅宰嚭,不應麋鹿到姑蘇。
西施未必懂得如何使吳國滅亡,
只因讒臣害了稱霸的宏圖大業。
假使夫差能早日誅殺太宰伯嚭,
麋鹿就不該出現在姑蘇臺的廢墟上。
Xi Shi, perhaps, was not the cause of Wu's fall;
It was the slanderous minister who ruined the conqueror's call.
Had King Fuchai put the flatterer Bo Pi to death in time,
The deer would not have roamed the ruins of Gusu in their prime.
剖析歷史敘事中責任歸因的認知偏差。
為西施辯誣,指出吳亡主因在內臣讒害霸業。
本詩為七言絕句,押平聲韻。
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