葉公好龍

傅高义在书中写道，一位不愿透露姓名的省委书记说，邓小平看待民主，就像叶公好龙——叶公子高好龙，于是夫龙闻而下之。叶公见之，弃而还走，失其魂魄，五色无主。“叶公好龙”这则广为人知的故事，习惯上用来比喻言行不一。
One unnamed provincial first party secretary is quoted, by Vogel, as saying that Deng’s view of democracy was like Lord Ye’s view of dragons. “Lord Ye loved looking at a book with pretty pictures of dragons but when a real dragon appeared, he was terrified.” This well-known story about a mythical figure from China’s distant past is customarily told to draw attention to the inconsistency between words and actions.

1.　葉公好龍
注音一式　ㄕㄜˋ　ㄍㄨㄥ　ㄏㄠˋ　ㄌㄨㄥˊ
漢語拼音　ｓｈ 　 ｎ 　ｈ ｏ　ｌ ｎ	注音二式　ｓｈ 　ｇ ｎｇ　ｈ ｕ　ｌ ｎｇ
古人葉子高喜歡龍，家裡全用龍來雕飾。天上的龍知道此事，特到葉公家的窗口窺視。葉公見了真龍，卻嚇得面無人色。典出漢˙劉向˙新序˙雜事。後以葉公好龍比喻表裡不一，似是而非的假象。三國志˙卷三十八˙蜀書˙秦宓傳：「昔楚葉公好龍，神龍下之，好偽徹天，何況於真。」