Level 6 · 寓言故事 · 67 vocabulary words
Source: 《列子·汤问》 · Liezi, 'The Questions of Tang'
有一个九十岁的老人,叫愚公。他家门前有两座大山,出门要走很远的路。
A ninety-year-old man called Yu Gong, Foolish Old Man, lived with two great mountains blocking his door.
愚公决定把山挖掉。他带着家人,每天挖山运土。
He resolved to dig them away and set to it with his family, moving earth every day.
一个聪明人笑他:你这么老了,怎么可能挖掉两座大山?
A wise man laughed: 'Old as you are, how could you possibly move two mountains?'
愚公说:我死了有儿子,儿子死了有孙子,子子孙孙没有尽头,山却不会再长高。
Yu Gong said: 'When I die there are my sons, then grandsons, my line is endless, but the mountains will not grow.'
天帝被愚公感动了,派了两个神仙把山背走了。
The Emperor of Heaven, moved, sent two gods to carry the mountains away.