大轰大嗡故事类英文小短文

2021年1月11日发(作者：毕荣九)
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Covering the Eye with a Leaf

In the State of Chu, there was a man whose family was very
poor. Even at night the often dreamt of striking it rich,
but the never worked hard.
One day, when he was leafing through the book Huainan Zi,
he came across a line saying:” When the mantis preys on the
cicada, it relies entirely upon a leaf to conceal its body.”
He thought that if one could get such a leaf, one could
become invisible。
Thereupon, he ran into the woods, looking for just such a
leaf among the branches. He had searched a long time
before he discovered a mantis hiding itself behind a leaf
and waiting to catch a cicada. He climbed up the tree at
once, and plucked the leaf. But he was in such a big hurry
that, out of carelessness. The leaf dropped to the ground.
There were many, many fallen leaves on the ground. How
could he identify the leaf he had plucked？ So he had to
put all the leaves into a bamboo basket and carry them home.

As soon as he got home, he held up one leaf after another
in turn to cover his eye, and kept asking his wife:“Can you
see me?”In the beginning, his wife always answered:” Yes, I
can.”After a long time, she began to feel weird: what was
the matter with her husband today? Why did he keep holding
up a leaf and asking her the same question?。”
He did this over and over again for one whole day. In the
end, his wife got impatient and humoured him by saying:”
No, I can’t.”

Hearing this, he became wild with joy. He turned and ran
out to the street. Holding the leaf in one hand, he grabbed
with the other hand the goods in a shop. But before he
could withdraw his hand, he was caught on the spot and
handed over to the local yamen.

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Sighing over one’s Insignificance be

When autumn came, all the water in the large and small
rivers rose higher and flowed into the Yellow River.
The surface of the River at once appeared much wider, On
one side of the bank, one couldn’t see the cattle and sheep
on the opposite side. The River deity Hebo was therefore
immensely proud and considered himself the greatest in the
world.
Hero followed the Yellow River to the North Sea. Then he
looked at himself and felt he could not see the bounds of
the sea. Then he looked at himself and felt he was so tiny
and insignificant. He sighed and said to Hairuo, the deity
of the North Sea.
“Asa the saying goes, a person who has gained a little
learning tends to regard himself as the wiset person under
the sky. I am just that kind of person. Seeing how broad
and great you are today, I have come to realize how
insignificant and ignorant I am. If I didn’t meet you , I’m
afraid I would I would always be laughed at by people with
knowledge.”
Hairou said:
“We cannot talk about the sea with a frog at the bottom of
a well, for the frog is restricted by its dwelling place;
we cannot talk about ice with a small insect is restricted
by the seasons; we cabbit talk about profound learning with
superficial persons, for they have too little knowledge.
Now you have come out of a small river to the North Sea,
seen the greatness of it and realized your own
insignificance. Since you have taken such a modest attitude,
I can then talk with you about profound learning. ”



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The King of Chu Beats the Drum

One day, King Li of the State of Chu announced to the
people: If any emergency occurs in our country, the drum
will be beaten as a signal. The moment the people hear the
drum, they must assemble outside the palace gate at once.
One day, King Li out drunk, when he passed by the drum
stand, he started to beat the drum at random. When the
people heard the drum, they ran from all directions to the
palace gate, thinking that some emergency had occurred in
the country. They stood all around in a dense mass.
King Li sent someone to tell them:”Just now the King beat
the drum, but nothing urgent had happened, it was only
because the King got drunk and when he passed by the drum
stand, he beat the drum just for fun.”
All the people returned to their homes , feeling angry.
A few months later, some emergency really occurred in the
State of Chu. The drum outside the palace gate sounded from
early morning until night. Though the people heard the drum,
they no longer cared about it and didn’t rush to the palace
gate.






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An old horse knows the way

One spring, Guan Zhong and xi peng followed Huan
Gong, King of the State of Qi, in an expedition against
the State of Gu back. They lost their way, Guan Zhong said:

“Old horses are wise animals who know their way. Let them
lead the way for us!”

Thereupon, they let several old horses lead in front and
the army followed behind. Finally they found their way home.

When the army entered the hills, they ran out of water.
Then Xi Peng said:” In winter, the ants stay on the
south side of a hill, and in summer, on the north side.
There is sure to be water source under their nest. ”

Thereupon, the soldiers exerted strenuous efforts to dig
the ground. Sure enough, they found water under the ants’
nest.

Men of great learning like Guan Zhong and Xi Peng, when
coming across difficulties, would also seek help from
horses and ants of lower intelligence than human beings to
find a way out.




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