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nán yuán běi zhé
rén xiǎng wǎng nán zǒu
dàn shì de chē què shì zhāo běi
zǒu de
guò rén wèn
guǒ xiǎng wǎng nán zǒu wèi shén me
de chē què zhāo běi zǒu
zhè rén shuō de hěn
néng pǎo de chē shàn gǎn
chē yòu hěn yǒu suǒ
zài
zhè rén gēn běn méi yǒu kǎo dào
xíng jìn de fāng xiàng cuò le
de tiáo jiàn yuè hǎo fǎn ér huì
de yuè yuǎn
zhè chéng xíng dòng
de zhèng hǎo xiāng fǎn
Once a man went to the south, but his carriage was heading north.
A passer-by asked him: "If you are going to the south, why is your carriage heading north?"
The man said, "My horse is good at running, my driver is highly skilled at driving a carriage, and I am rich."
The man didn't care the direction might be wrong; the better his conditions were, the further he was far away from his destination.
This idiom came from this story tells that one's action was the opposite effect to one's intention.
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