鲁班造锯
Lu Ban Invents the Saw
Level 4 · Folktales · 民间故事 · 67 vocabulary words
Source: 民间传说 · Folk tradition
鲁班上山砍树,手被一种野草的叶子划破了。
On the mountain Lu Ban's hand was cut by a blade of wild grass.
他拿起叶子一看,叶子边上全是小齿。他又看见蝗虫的大牙也是一排小齿,能咬断叶子。
Looking closer he saw the leaf's edge lined with fine teeth, and a locust's jaws were toothed the same way.
鲁班想:做一条带齿的铁片,不就能割树了?
He thought: an iron strip with teeth could cut wood.
他打出第一把锯子,一拉一推,树很快就断了。从一片草叶上学来的本事,改变了几千年的木工。
He forged the first saw; push-pull, and the tree was down. Learned from a blade of grass, it changed carpentry for millennia.