Long ago there was a chess master named Qiu whose chess skills were superlative.

　　Qiu had two students who studied chess with him, one student studied with concentrated focus and energy. The other, however, wasn’t like that, he thought studying chess was very easy, and there was no need to take it seriously. When the teacher was explaining, although the [the student] sat there, his eyes seemed to be on the chess pieces, he was actually thinking: “If I go to the countryside right now and shoot a goose, I’ll have a lovely dinner.” Because he was always indulging in flights of fancy and absent-mindedness, nothing the teacher said ever sunk in.

　　As a result, although the two students studied were taught at the same time by the same master, one improved quickly and became a superior chess player, while the other never learned much at all.

　　從前有一個下棋能手名叫秋，他的棋藝非常高超。

　　秋有兩個學生，一起跟他學習下棋，其中一個學生非常專心集中精力跟老師學習。另一個卻不這樣，他認為學下棋很容易，用不著認真。老師講解的時候，他雖然坐在那里，眼睛也好像在看著棋子可心里卻想著：“要是現在到野外射下一只鴻雁，美餐一頓該多好。 ”因為他總是胡思亂想心不在焉，老師的講解一點也沒聽進去。

　　結果，雖然兩個學生同是一個名師傳授，但是，一個進步很快，成了棋藝高強的名手，另一個卻沒學到一點本事。