Level 5 · 寓言故事 · 52 vocabulary words
Source: 《晋书·乐广传》 · Book of Jin, Biography of Yue Guang
乐广请朋友喝酒,朋友看到杯子里有一条小蛇,硬着头皮喝了下去。
Yue Guang invited a friend to drink; the friend saw a small snake in his cup and forced the wine down.
回家以后,他总觉得蛇在肚子里,越想越害怕,病倒了。
Back home he kept feeling the snake in his belly; the more he thought, the sicker he became.
乐广知道以后,回到原来的座位上,发现是墙上挂着的弓,倒映在酒杯里。
Yue Guang, learning of it, sat where his friend had sat, and saw it was the bow on the wall, reflected in the cup.
他又请朋友来,告诉他真相。朋友的病马上就好了。
He invited the friend back and showed him. The illness vanished at once.