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神话传说英文小故事大全 Once upon a time, the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan, legendary ruler of primitive China, went boating on the Eastern Sea. While she was enjoying herself, a strong wind rose on the sea and her boat capsized. Just before she was buried by the surging waves, her spirit turned into a beautiful bird. As it flew over the roaring sea, it cried sadly in the sound jinwei, jingwei. That was why people called it Jingwei. The bird lived on a mountain near the sea. It hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every day, it flew to and fro between the mountain and the sea, carrying in a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea. One day, the roaring sea said to Jingwei, Poor little bird, stop doing that meaningless thing! Youll never fill me up. Jingwei replied, Ill fill you up no doubt! I will, even if itll take me thousands of years! Ill fight on until doomsday! The brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the Eastern Sea without taking a rest. From this fable comes the idiom The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea. We use it to describe people who are firm and indomitable and will not stop until they reach their goal. the taihang and wangwu mountains, which had a periphery of seven hundred li and were a hundred thousand feet high, originally lay south of jizhou and north of heyang. the foolish old man of the north mountain, nearly ninety years of age, lived behind these mountains. he was unhappy about the fact that the mountains blocked his way to the south and he had to walk round them whenever he went our or came back, so he called the whole family together to talk about the matter. what would you say, he said to them,if i suggest that all of us work hard to level the two mountains, so as to open a way to places south of yu prefecture and the han river? many voices said they agreed to the idea. but his wife had her doubts. with yo