大闹天宫
Havoc in Heaven
Level 5 · Idiom Stories · 成语故事 · 69 vocabulary words
Source: 《西游记》 · Journey to the West
孙悟空学成本领,玉帝封他当弼马温,管天上的马。他知道官小,反下天宫,自称齐天大圣。
Sun Wukong, newly powerful, was made Stablemaster of Heaven, a tiny post. Furious, he returned to earth calling himself Great Sage Equal to Heaven.
玉帝派天兵天将打他,都打不过他,只好请他上天,封了齐天大圣的空名。
Heaven's armies couldn't beat him, so they gave him the empty title to keep him quiet.
王母娘娘开蟠桃会,没有请他。孙悟空把仙桃吃了个够,又把太上老君的仙丹吃了,大闹天宫。
When the Peach Banquet left him off the list, Wukong ate the immortal peaches and Laozi's elixir and made havoc in heaven.
玉帝请来如来佛,把孙悟空压在五行山下,一压五百年。
The Buddha himself came, and pinned the Monkey King under Five Elements Mountain, five hundred years.