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 to the 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 around the mountains whenever they had something to do on the other side of the mountains.

　　在冀州的南面，河陽(yáng)的北面，有兩座巍峨的大山，一座是太行，一座是王屋，方圓七百里，有萬(wàn)丈高。

　　山的北邊住著年近90的愚公。由于家門(mén)被山擋住，每次外出全家人都要繞過(guò)大山，多走很多路。

　　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 mention the 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.

　　一天，愚公把全家人召集到一起，商量著把兩座大山移走。妻子說(shuō)：“憑你的力量，連一座小山丘也移不走，何況這兩座大山呢？再說(shuō)，你就是能移走，那土石往哪里放呢？”愚公說(shuō)：“渤海那么大，可以把土石扔到渤海里去。”

　　說(shuō)干就干，愚公帶領(lǐng)子孫們挖起山來(lái)。河曲的智叟看見(jiàn)了，笑著阻止道：“你真是太傻了！以你的殘年余力，連山上的一根草都動(dòng)不了，更何況大山？”愚公嘆了口氣說(shuō)：“你錯(cuò)了。你想想，我死了以后還有我的兒子，我的兒子又有兒子，子子孫孫沒(méi)有窮盡！可是山上的土石不會(huì)增加，還怕挖不走嗎？”

　　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 high mountains?"

　　"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 no end. 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.

　　愚公移山的事很快被玉皇大帝知道了。玉帝被愚公堅(jiān)韌不拔的精神所感動(dòng)，便派大力神把兩座大山背走了。

　　這個(gè)故事告訴我們：只要有決心，有毅力，再難的事情也能辦成。

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