有寓意的少儿英语成语故事：半途而废

有寓意的少儿英语成语故事：半途而废

Give up halfway1

During the Warring States Period (475-221BC), there was a

man called Yue Yangzi in State Yue. One day he saw a piece of

gold on the road and picked it up. He took it home and gave

it to his wife. But his wife was not happy. The virtuous2

woman said,

thief's water and a man of probity3 refuses to accept alms.

What do you think of the action of picking up another's lost

valuable and possessing it for one's own?

Yue Yangzi, feeling ashamed, sent the gold back to where

he found it.

the next year, Yue Yangzi felt that he should go out and

visit scholars to enrich his knowledge. So he set off.

A year later, he came back home suddenly.

Without saying anything, his wife took a pair of scissors

and went to the loom4 at which she had worked. Pointing at

the half done brocade, she proclaimed

：

woven from the finest silk. I wove one strand5 after another

to produce the brocade. Now if I cut it, all my previous work

will be wasted. It's the same with your studies. You can

acquire knowledge only through diligence. Now, you've stopped