【英文成语故事】Filling Up the Sea 精卫填海（讲解版）

Filling Up the Sea

A long time ago, there lived a little girl named Nv Wa, who was the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan, the legendary ruler in ancient Chinese mythology.

The little princess loved watching the sunrise, admiring the spectacle of nature. She once asked her father where the sun rises. Her father said it was in the Eastern Sea and promised to take her there to see the sunrise on a boat, but he had been too busy to do that.　

One day, the little princess got a boat secretly, sailing to the Eastern Sea. Unfortunately, when she was away from the shore, a strong wind rose and overthrew her boat. She was buried by the surging waves, being drowned quickly.

After her death, her spirit turned into a beautiful bird with white beak and red claws. Since it often stood on a branch, mourning herself sadly in the sound “jing wei, jing wei”, people called it “Jing Wei”.

Jing Wei hated the sea very much for taking her life. In order to revenge and keep other kids from being drown, the small bird decided to fill up the roaring sea.

From then on, Jing Wei flew to and fro between the mountain and the Eastern Sea, carrying a twig or a pebble and dropping them into the sea. Day after day, it never stopped.

The sea said to Jing Wei with irony, “Stop doing that, poor little bird. It is totally meaningless! You’ll never fill me up.”　　　　

Jing Wei simply replied, “I won’t give up, even if it takes me ten million years or more. Because you robbed me of my young life and threaten others as well!”

　　

This is today’s idiom story. Today we always use it to describe someone who never loses hope or gives up his dreams.

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中文大意

精卫填海

很久以前，有一个叫作“女娃”的女孩，她是神话中炎帝最小的女儿。女娃很喜欢看日出，大自然如此壮观，让她心动。她曾问父亲太阳是从什么地方升起的。父亲说太阳从东海边升起，还答应她一起坐船去东海——太阳升起的地方。但是父亲太忙了，总也抽不出时间。一天，女娃背着父亲，一个人驾着一只小船向东海划去。不幸的是，刚行驶没多远，海上就刮起了狂风，并掀翻了她的小船。女娃不幸落入海中，被无情的大海吞没了。女娃死后，她的精魂化作了一只美丽的小鸟，这只小鸟有着白色的嘴壳，红色的爪子。她一站到树枝上就发出“精卫、精卫”的悲鸣，所以，人们便叫此鸟为“精卫”。精卫痛恨大海夺去了自己的生命，为了报仇，也为了其他孩子不再溺亡，精卫决定去填平这波涛汹涌的大海。从此以后，她往返于高山和大海之间，嘴里叼着石子或树枝，一次一次投进大海。日复一日，精卫从未停止。大海嘲笑她道：“可怜的小鸟，你还是算了吧，你是不可能将我填平的！”　　精卫只是答道：“我是不会放弃的，就算用上千万年我也不会放弃。你不仅夺走了我的生命，还威胁到其他人。”　　这就是今天的成语故事，现在我们常用它来形容某人从不会失去信心，从不会放弃梦想。

词汇句型

• to and fro 来回地Why are you walking to and fro in the room?为什么一直在房间里走来走去的？

• spectacle /ˈspektəkl/  n.壮观的景象The sunset was a stunning spectacle.夕阳西斜，异常壮观。

• surge /sɜːdʒ/v.  汹涌；涌动She was buried by the surging waves, being drowned quickly.女娃不幸落入海中，被汹涌的的大海吞没了。
  

成语出处

晋・陶渊明《山海经》诗：“精卫衔微木，将以填沧海。”

今天的英文成语故事就学到这里啦，下期见！