愚公移山(詳讀本)
Level 3 · 寓言故事 · 134 vocabulary words
Source: 《列子·汤问》 · Liezi
很久以前,有一位九十岁的老人,名字叫愚公。他家门口有两座大山,一座叫太行,一座叫王屋,出门要绕很远的路。
Long ago there was a ninety-year-old man called Yugong. Two great mountains stood before his door, Taihang and Wangwu, and going out meant a long detour.
有一天,愚公把全家人叫到一起,说:我们一起把这两座山挖平,好不好?家人都同意了。
One day Yugong called his family together: let us dig these two mountains flat. Everyone agreed.
第二天,全家人就开始挖山。挖出来的土和石头,要运到很远的海边去倒,一年才能走一个来回。
The next day the whole family began digging. The earth and stone had to be carried all the way to the sea, one round trip a year.
邻居中有一个叫智叟的老人笑话他:你都九十岁了,山这么高,怎么可能挖得完?
An old neighbor called Zhisou laughed at him: you are ninety, and the mountains are so high. How could you ever finish?
愚公回答:我死了,还有儿子;儿子死了,还有孙子。子子孙孙是没有穷尽的,可是山不会长高,为什么挖不平呢?
Yugong answered: when I die there are my sons; when they die, their sons. The line is endless, but the mountain grows no taller. Why could it not be leveled?
智叟听了,一句话也说不出来。
Zhisou had nothing to say.
这件事感动了天帝。天帝派了两个神仙,把两座大山背走了。
The matter moved the Emperor of Heaven, who sent two spirits to carry the mountains away.
愚公他们一家人,从春天挖到夏天,从秋天挖到冬天,一天也没有停过。
Yugong's family dug from spring to summer, autumn to winter, never stopping a single day.
有人问他累不累,他说:挖一天,山就矮一点儿,我心里高兴。
Someone asked if he was tired. He said: every day of digging lowers the mountain a little; it makes me glad.
愚公移山这个成语告诉我们:目标再大也不要怕,只要一代一代坚持下去,就没有做不到的事。
Yugong moving the mountains teaches: no goal is too great. Persist generation after generation and nothing is impossible.