英语故事愚公移山阅读

英语故事愚公移山阅读Yugong was a ninety-year-old man who lived at the north of two high mountains, Mount Taixing and Mount Wangwu.Stretching over a wide expanse of land, the mountains blocked yugong's way makingit inconvenient for him and his family to get around.太行，王屋二山的北面，住了一个九十岁的老翁，名叫愚公。

二山占地广阔，挡住去路，使他和家人往来极为不便。

One day yugong gathered his family together and said,"Let's do our best to level these two mountains. We shall open a road that leads to Yuzhou. What do you think?"一天，愚公召集家人说：「让我们各尽其力，铲平二山，开条道路，直通豫州，你们认为怎样?」All but his wife agreed with him."You don't have the strength to cut even a small mound," muttered his wife. "How on earth do you suppose you can level Mount Taixin and Mount Wanwu? Moreover,where will all the earth and rubble go?"大家都异口同声赞成，只有他的妻子表示怀疑，并说：「你连开凿一个小丘的力量都没有，怎可能铲平太行、王屋二山呢?况且，凿出的土石又丢到哪里去呢?」"Dump them into the Sea of Bohai!" said everyone.大家都热烈地说：「把土石丢进渤海里。

」So Yugong, his sons, and his grandsons started to break up rocks and remove the earth. They transported the earth and rubble to the Sea of Bohai.于是愚公就和儿孙，一起开挖土，把土石搬运到渤海去。

Now Yugong's neighbour was a widow who had an only child eight years old. Evening the young boy offered his help eagerly.愚公的邻居是个寡妇，有个儿子八岁也兴致勃勃地走来帮忙。

Summer went by and winter came. It took Yugong and his crew a full year to travel back and forth once.寒来暑往，他们要一年才能往返渤海一次。

On the bank of the Yellow River dwelled an old man much respected for his wisdom. When he saw their back-breaking labour, he ridiculed Yugong saying,"Aren't you foolish, my friend? You arevery old now, and with whatever remains of your waning strength, you won't be able to remove even a corner of the mountain."住在黄河河畔的智叟，看见他们这样辛苦，取笑愚公说：「你不是很愚蠢吗?你已一把年纪了，就是用尽你的气力，也不能挖去山的一角呢?」Yugong uttered a sigh and said,"A biased person like you will never understand. You can't even compare with the widow's little boy!""Even if I were dead, there will still be my children, mygrandchildren, my great grandchildren, my great great grandchildren. They descendants will go on forever. But these mountains will not grow any taler. We shall level them one day!" he declaredwith confidence.愚公叹息道：「你有这样的成见，是不会明白的。

你比那寡妇的小儿子还不如呢!就算我死了，还有我的儿子，我的孙子，我的曾孙子，他们一直传下去。

而这二山是不会加大的，总有一天，我们会把它们铲平。

」The wise old man was totally silenced.智叟听了，无话可说：When the guardian gods of the mountains saw how determined Yugong and his crew were, they were struck with fear and reported the incident to the Emperor of Heavens.Filled with admiration forYugong, the Emperor of Heavens ordered two mighty gods to carry the mountains away.二山的守护神被愚公的坚毅精神吓倒，便把此事奏知天帝。

天帝佩服愚公的精神，就命两位大力神背走二山。

the taihang and wangwu mountains, which had a periphery of seven hundredli and were a hundred thousand feet high, originally lay south of jizhou and north of heyang.the foolish old man of the north mountain, nearly ninety years of age, lived behind these mountains. he was unhappy about the fact that the mountains blocked his way to the south and he hadto walk round them whenever he went our or came back, so he called the whole family together to talk about the matter. " what would you say," he saidto them,"if i suggest that all of us workhard to level the two mountains, so as to open a way to places south of yu prefecture and the han river?" many voices said they agreed to the idea.but his wife had her doubts. "with your strength," she said, "you could hardly remove a small hill like kuifu. what could you do with the taihang and wangwu mountains? besides, where couldyou deposit the earth and rocks.?""carry them to the shores of the bohai sea and north of yintu," said several people.the old man, helped by his son and grandson who could carry things, began to break rocks and dig earth, which they carried in baskets and dustbins to the shores of the bohai sea. theseven-year-old son of a widow named jingcheng, one of the old man's neighbours, came running up to offer his help. one trip to the sea took them a long time: they left in winter and came backin summer.the wise old man at the river bend stopped the old man. he laughed and said, "how unwise you are! at your age, old and feeble as you are, you cannot even remove one hair on the mountain, letalone so much earth and so many rocks!"the foolish old man of the north mountain heaved a long sign and said, "you are so conceited that you are blind to reason. even a widow and a child know better than you. when i die, therewill be my sons, who will have their sons and grandsons. those grandsons will have their sons and grandsons, and so on to infinity. but the mountains will not grow. why is it impossible tolevel them?" the wise old man at the river bend could not answer him.the old man's words were heard by a god with snakes in his hands. he was afraid that the old man would really level the two mountains, and reported the whole thing to the heavenly god. movedby the old man's determination, the heavenly god ordered the two sons of kua'ershi to carry the two mountains on their backs and put one east of shuo and the other south of yong. after this,there were no more mountains between jizhou and the han river.There were two high mountains between Jizhou in the south and Heyang in the north. One was called Taihang Mountain and the other Wangwu Mountain. Both of the mountains were very high. Just tothe north of the mountains lived an old man called Yu Gong who was nearly 90 years old. With the two high mountains just in front of his house, his family and he had to walk a long way aroundthe mountains whenever they had something to do on the other side of the mountains.One day, Yu Gong called all his family together to talk about how to move the two mountains to other places. His wife said, "An old man like you cannot even move a small hill, not to mentionthe two high mountains. Even if you can, where can you throw so much earth and stone?""The Bohai Sea is big enough to contain all the earth and stone," Yu Gong said. So it was decided. His children started to dig the mountains, led by the old man Yu Gong.A man named Zhi Sou saw them working and tried to stop them, saying, "You are so silly! You're so old and weak that you can't even take away the grass and trees. How can you move the highmountains?""You're wrong," Yu Gong said with a sigh. "Look, my sons can continue my work after my death. When my sons die, my grandchildren will continue. So generations after generations, there's noend. But the mountains can't grow higher. Do you still say I can't move them away?"Later the Heaven God, upon learning of Yu Gong's story, was greatly moved. He then ordered another god to come down and take the two high mountains away.The story tells us that so long as one is determined and sticks to it long enough, anything can be done, no matter how difficult it is.在冀州的南面，河阳的北面，有两座巍峨的大山，一座是太行，一座是王屋，方圆七百里，有万丈高。