司马光砸缸
Sima Guang Smashes the Vat
Level 5 · Idiom Stories · 成语故事 · 47 vocabulary words
Source: 《宋史·司马光传》 · History of Song, Biography of Sima Guang
司马光小时候和小朋友在院子里玩。
Young Sima Guang played in the courtyard with friends.
一个孩子掉进了大水缸,水很深,眼看要淹死。孩子们都吓跑了。
A child fell into a huge water vat, deep, drowning. The others ran off in fright.
司马光抱起一块大石头,把水缸砸了个大洞。
Sima Guang lifted a stone and smashed a hole in the vat.
水哗哗地流出来,孩子得救了。别人都跑,他留下想办法。
Water poured out; the child was saved. While others fled, he stayed and thought.