[00:02.95]Catch of a Lifetime一生的收获
[00:06.24]He was 11 and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family’s cabin.
[00:13.45]　　On the day before the bass season opened,
[00:16.40] he and his father were fishing early in the evening.
[00:19.58]Then he tied on a small silver lure and practiced casting.
[00:24.95] When his peapole doubled over,
[00:27.14]he knew something huge was on the other end.
[00:30.51] His father watched with admiration
[00:33.26]as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock.
[00:37.42]　　Finally, he lifted the exhausted fish from the water.
[00:41.45] It was the largest one he had ever seen, but it was a bass.
[00:45.83]　　The father lit a match and looked at his watch.
[00:49.66]It was 10 P.M.—two hours before the season opened.
[00:54.58]He looked at the fish, then at the boy.
[00:57.53]　　“You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said.
[01:01.38]　　“Dad!” cried the boy.
[01:02.34]　　“There will be other fish,” said his father.
[01:05.08]　　“Not as big as this one,” cried the boy.
[01:08.03]　　He looked around the lake.
[01:10.44] No others were anywhere around in the moonlight.
[01:13.72] He looked again at his father.
[01:15.80]Even though no one had seen them,
[01:18.42]nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish,
[01:21.93]the boy could tell by the clarity of his father’s voice
[01:25.53]that the decision was not negotiable.
[01:28.59] He slowly worked the hook out of the lip of the huge bass
[01:32.86]and lowered it into the black water.
[01:35.49]The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish.
[01:40.18]　　That was 34 years ago.
[01:42.92]Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City.
[01:47.85]He takes his own son and daughters fishing from the same dock.
[01:52.22]　　And he was right.
[01:54.08] He has never again caught such a magnificent fish
[01:58.12]as the one he landed that night long ago.
[02:00.75] But he does see that same fish—again and again—
[02:04.87]every time he comes up against a question of ethics.
[02:08.41]　　For, as his father taught him,
[02:10.93] ethics are simple matters of right and wrong.
[02:13.98] It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult.
[02:17.59] Do we do right when no one is looking?
[02:20.99]Do we refuse to cut corners to get the design in on time?
[02:24.92] Or refuse to trade stocks based on information that we know
[02:28.97] we aren’t supposed to have?
[02:30.83]We would if we were taught to put the fish back when we were young.
[02:35.09] For we would have learned the truth.
[02:37.61]The decision to do right lives fresh and fragrant in our memory.