英语中国故事纭本三年级

英语中国故事纭本三年级
In the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), there was a qi man who was always afraid that one day the sky would suddenly fall in and he would have nowhere to live. He was so worried about it that he ate and slept unhappily all day.
When one of his friends learned of his worry, he was afraid it might damage his health, and went out of his way to reassure him, saying, "Gee, it's just a buildup of gas. And gas is everywhere. For example, you lift your legs, bend down, talk and breathe in the sky. Why do you worry that the sky will fall?"
Still frightened, the Qi asked, "If the sky were a collection of gases, wouldn't the sun, moon and stars fall from the sky?"
"The sun, the moon and the stars are just masses of gas that shine. Even if they fall down, they won't hurt anyone."
But qi's worries did not end. "What if the land sinks?" he asked. What should I do?"
"The earth," said his friend, "is only a pile of rocks. It goes in every direction. There is no place without rocks. For example, if you are standing and walking on the ground, why do you worry that it will sink in?"
After listening to his friend's enlightening, the Qi man finally set his heart at rest and was very happy. His friends were glad that he was no longer hurting himself with unjustified sorrow.
At that time, chang Luzi, a thinker of the State of Chu, was not impressed by the conversation between his countrymen and his friends. He commented with a smile: "The rainbows, the clouds, the mists, the winds and rains, and the changes of the four seasons, all these accumulated gases together make up the sky; And the mountains, the rivers and the seas, the wood and the flint, all these piles together make up the earth. Since you know that the sky is the accumulation of air and the earth is the accumulation of lumps, how can you be sure that the sky and the earth will not change? It seems to me that heaven and earth are nothing more than a small object in the universe, and yet one of the tangible things, which in itself is not terminating and cannot be exhausted; It is natural that it should be difficult to imagine and understand. Qi's fear that the sky would cave in was indeed a little far off; But his friends said it was impossible, and that was not true. The sky and the earth cannot be without being bad, and they will be, and how can people not be afraid that when they are going to be bad?"
For this argument, the Warring States period of the Zheng imperial kou also have a view. "It is absurd to say that heaven and earth can be bad; It is also absurd to say that heaven and earth cannot be bad. Whether heaven and earth will break down or not, we do not yet know. But to say that heaven and earth will be bad is an opinion, and to say that they will not be bad is also an opinion. It was as if the living did not know what it was like to be dead, and the dead did not know what it was like to be alive; The future does not know the past, and the past cannot predict the future. If so, why should I care whether heaven and earth are bad or not?"
There is no doubt that if heaven and earth are viewed with today's scientific common sense, we can be sure that the views of the Qizhong and his friends, as well as those of the ancient thinkers Lu Zi and Liyukou, were biased. But the story still shows that people should not be trapped in endless worries about problems that cannot be recognized or solved by an era. It's better to be open-minded in life.。