The Frog at the Bottom of the Well
Level 5 · Idiom Stories · 成语故事 · 46 vocabulary words
Source: 《庄子·秋水》 · Zhuangzi, Autumn Floods
一只青蛙住在一口井里,他对东海来的大鳖说:我这里多好多大,你看这天,这水。
A frog lived in a well. To a great turtle from the Eastern Sea he boasted: see my sky, my water, how grand.
大鳖说:东海大得走不到边,深得看不见底。
The turtle said: the Eastern Sea is too wide to cross and too deep to see the bottom.
青蛙听了,呆住了,半天说不出话。
The frog stared, speechless.
只看过井口那么大天的人,不知道天有多大。
One who has only seen sky the size of a well's mouth doesn't know how vast the sky is.