亡羊补牢
Mending the Pen After the Sheep Are Lost
Level 5 · Idiom Stories · 成语故事 · 47 vocabulary words
Source: 《战国策·楚策四》 · Zhanguo Ce, Chu 4
一个人养羊,羊圈破了个洞,夜里狼进来叼走了一只羊。
A shepherd's pen had a broken hole; at night a wolf took a sheep.
邻居说:快修羊圈吧。他说:羊都丢了,修有什么用?
A neighbour said: fix the pen. He said: the sheep is already lost, why bother?
第二天夜里,狼又从洞里进来,叼走一只羊。
The next night the wolf came through the hole again and took another.
他后悔了,马上把羊圈修好。从此,他的羊再也没有丢过。
Sorry at last, he mended the pen. No sheep was ever lost again.
出了问题马上改,还不算晚。
Fixing a problem the moment you see it is never too late.