空中楼阁从前有一位工匠,一心一意想造一座空中楼阁。根据字面的要求,他先建了一座楼阁,然后,用四根木柱把楼阁支撑到空中。轮廓初定,他便考虑如何使这四根柱子从公众的视线中消失。他的思路是这样的,用斧子等一套工具,把木柱削细,再削细,直至接近无限的细微——木柱便会从视线中消失,或者说隐去了。但尚未等到木柱接近无限的细微,楼阁便倾覆下 In the past there was a craftsman in the air pavilion, wholeheartedly trying to build an air pavilion. According to the literal requirements, he first built a pavilion, and then, with four wooden columns to support the pavilion into the air. When the outline was first set, he considered how to make the four columns disappear from public view. His train of thought is that, with a set of tools such as an ax, the pillars are thinned and then thinned until they are nearly infinitely subtle - the pillars will disappear from sight or be hidden. But not until the pillar close to infinitesimal subtle, the pavilion will be overthrown