愚公移山—汉英翻译.doc

To Move the Mountains（愚公移山）By-AbbyTanghang and Wangwu are two mountains covering an area of seven hundred li square and reaching a great height of thousands of ren. They located in the south of Jizhou and the north of Heyang.In the north of mountains, there was an old man named Yugong (which means foolish man) who was nearly 90 years old. Faced with two mountains, Yugong found it was very inconvenient to go out. So he gathered his family members in a room to discuss the matter.“We should exert ourselves to move two mountains out of our way to the south of Yu and the southern bank of Han River. Whats your opinion?” said Yugong.Everyone agreed with him. But his wife was skeptical of his solution.She said“you are too weak to move the hill of Kuifu. Not to mention the mountains like Taihang and Wangwu. Supposing you are strong enough to do it, where can you place the earth andstone?”Somebody said“Throw it to the end of Bo Sea and the north of Ying area.”Therefore Yugong guided three people of his descendant to dig the stone of the mountains. Then they carried the earth and stone to the end of Bo Sea with dustpan. His neighbor-a widow whose family name was Jingcheng had a seven-year old boy who was happy to help them. From winter to next summer, they can return once.An old man called Zishou laughed at Yugong and tried to prevent him from moving the mountains.He said“It is very foolish to move the mountains. With your weak body, you cant eliminate the grass in the mountains. How can you move the earth and stone of the mountains?”Yugong sighed and said“Compared to the brain of the widow and her child, yours is very inflexible. Though I will die someday, my son live on. He will have his own son and my grandson will have his descendant too. This is unlimited. But the size of that two mountains will not grow anymore. In this way, why cant we succeed in moving mountains?” Zishou had nothing to say then.When the God of mountains knew the thing that Yugong wanted to do, he was afraid that Yugong would not stop digging the mountains. So he told the king of the God that Yugongs planning of moving the mountains. The king of the God was touched by Yugongs sincerity. The king ordered two sons of Kuaeshi to take the mountains away. One took a mountain to the east of Shuozhou