有一则小故事是关于四个人,名字叫:“每个人”,“一些人”,“任何人”和“没有人”。有一件重要的事情需要被完成,每个人相信一些人会去做,因为任何人都可以去做,但事实上是没有人做。一些人对此很生气,因为那是每个人都可以做也应该做的。每个人都认为,任何人也可以做,但没有人意识到每个人都不愿意做。当没有人完成任何人都可以完成的事情时,结果每个人都责怪一些人。
This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.