Bad Temper
بد اخلاقی

 

 
There once was a little boy who had a . His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day, the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to . The days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry the wound is still there. A verbal is as bad as a physical one."
 
 
 

 
irritability, tendency to become angry easily   اخلاق بد، تند خویی
 
 
 
progressively بتدريج‌، رفته‌ رفته‌
 
 
diminish, decrease, wane رفته‌ رفته‌ كوچك‌ شدن‌، تدريجا كاهش‌ يافتن‌، كم‌ شدن‌
 
 
 
to stay calm when it would be easy to get angry  کنترل کردن عصبانیت
 
 
 
injury; lesion; offense  زخم‌، جراحت