4-2莊子：君子之交淡如水
Unit 6 for fear that

哲學名句  

Get to work at sunrise and retire at sunset. Wander freely between heaven and earth and feel at ease at all times. —Chuang Tzu
日出而作，日入而息，逍遙於天地之間，而心意自得。 —莊子

名句故事
 
In ancient China, farmers got to work at sunrise and rested at sunset. So were other people, who didn’t have the night life as we do now. At night, they gazed at stars feeling their connection with the sky.

Without having so many distractions as we do now, ancient people spent much more time on gazing at the sky and contemplating the universe and the meaning of life.

In doing so, a philosopher like Chuang Tzu began to feel that he was wandering freely between heaven and earth without any sort of uneasiness in the mind. It was like being at one with the universe.

在古代中國，農夫日出而作日落而息，其他人也是如此，他們沒有像現在一樣的夜生活。他們在夜裡看著天上的星星時感受到與星空的連結。

古人沒有和我們一樣有這麼多的分心事物，他們花了許多時間在觀星，思考宇宙奧秘和生命的意義。

在這麼做的同時，莊子之類的哲學家就開始感受到自己是在天地之間自由自在地遨遊，心裡沒有任何的不安，好像與宇宙合為一體。

句型文法解析  

前一個單元提到for fear that子句句型可以用來替代lest + S + (should) + 原形動詞句型，所以哲學名句衍生出這樣的句子：To wake up at sunrise and get off work at sunset, Tom keeps the habit of constantly looking at his watch and checking the time for fear that he might lose track of time.（為了日出就起床日落就下班，湯姆習慣於經常看自己的手錶，唯恐忘了時間）。

for fear後面的that子句，可以用should / might / may這幾個助動詞，不會只用should，意思都是「可能」。相較之下，lest後面的句子卻只能用should來表達「可能」之意。

除了that字句外，for fear後面也可以接介系詞of，of後面再接名詞或動名詞，如果覺得用that子句太麻煩或容易因要考慮用那個助動詞而出錯，不妨改用for fear of比較保險。