A woman was dissatisfied with her next-door neighbor. She told her friend that the neighbor was a poor housekeeper, her house was not clean and her children were dirty. Then she complained that one was almost disgraced by living near such a neighbor.

"Just look," she said, "at those clothes and those sheets and pillow cases she has hung outside all with black streaks（条痕） up and down."

Her friend stepped to the window, raised it and looked out. Then he said: "It seems the clothes are very clean. The streaks that you see are on your own window."

有个女人对他的隔壁邻居很不满意，跟她的朋友说这个邻居不是个好主妇，说她家里不干净，孩子们都脏。还抱怨说和这样的邻居住得这么近几乎是很不体面的。

她说：“你就看看吧，她挂在外面的那些衣服以及那些床单和枕头套，上上下下都有一些黑斑纹。”

她的朋友走到窗前去，推开窗子看了看外面，然后说：“那些衣服看来非常干净。你看到的那些斑纹都是你自己窗子上的。”