Carve on Gunwale of a Moving Boat刻舟求劍

“刻舟求劍”是一個由寓言故事演化而成的成語，出自《呂氏春秋·察今》 。比喻拘泥固執(zhí)，不知變通。

Long time ago， there was a young man from the State of Chu.He had a nice 1）sword and he loved it very much.

One day， he was crossing a river by boat. Due to carelessness，his sword which hung at his side fell into the water. Not in the leastworried， he slowly took out a small knife and carved a mark on theside of the boat.

Someone on the boat asked him， “Why don’t you jump into thewater at once to fish for your sword？ What’s the use of making thismark on the side of the boat？”

He pointed to the mark on the side of the boat， saying2）unhurriedly， “There is no need to worry. My sword fell into theriver at this marked place. As soon as the boat reaches the 3）dockand pulls into 4）shore， I will jump down fromhere to retrieve my sword.” But in the end，he didn’t retrieve hissword.

1） sword n. 劍；刀

2） unhurriedly adv. 不慌不忙地

3） dock n. 碼頭

4） shore n. 濱；岸

很久以前，有一個楚國的年輕人，他有一把漂亮的劍，他非常喜歡這把劍。

一天，他坐船過河，一不小心身上掛的劍掉進了河里。他一點兒也不著急，慢騰騰地拿出小刀，在船舷上刻了一個記號。

船上的人問他：“你為什么不趕快下水把它撈起來？你在船舷上刻個記號有什么用啊？”

他指著船舷上的記號，不慌不忙地說：“不用著急。我的劍是從這個刻著記號的地方掉下去的。等船到了碼頭，靠了岸，我從這里跳下去，就能把劍撈上來。”但最終他還是沒撈到劍。

Answer the question：

Have you ever done something foolish that didn’t turn out as you’d hoped？ Think and write down.

Know More

This story tells us that looking at the changes and developments of things froma static perspective will inevitably lead to erroneous judgments. Things in the worldare constantly changing and we should take a development view of things that arechanging.

這個故事告訴我們：從靜態(tài)的角度看待事物的發(fā)展和變化，必然會導致錯誤的判斷。世界上的事情是不斷變化的，我們應該以發(fā)展的眼光看待變化的事物。