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成 语：精 卫 填 海
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【解释】：精卫：古代神话中的鸟名。精卫衔来木石，决心填平大海。旧时比喻仇恨极深，立志报复。后比喻意志坚决，不畏艰难。
【出处】：《山海经·北山经》:“又北二百里，曰发鸠之山，其上多柘木，有鸟焉，其状如乌，文首，白喙，赤足，名曰“精卫”，其鸣自詨。是炎帝之少女，名曰女娃。女娃游于东海，溺而不返，故为精卫，常衔西山之木石，以堙于东海。漳水出焉，东流注于河。”
【译文】：再向北走二百里，有座山叫发鸠山，山上长了很多柘树。有一种鸟，它的形状像乌鸦，头部有花纹，白色的嘴，红色的脚，名叫精卫，它的叫声像在呼唤自己的名字。传说这种鸟是炎帝小女儿的化身，名叫女娃。有一次，女娃去东海游泳，被溺死了，再也没有回来，所以化为精卫鸟。经常口衔西山上的树枝和石块，用来填塞东海。浊漳河就发源于发鸠山，向东流去，注入黄河。
【示例】:宾南如～，每不自量。◎清·阮葵生《茶余客话》卷十
【近义词】：矢志不移、愚公移山、移山倒海
【语法】：主谓式；作谓语、定语；比喻意志坚决，不畏艰难
The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea
【汉英对照】从前，炎帝（传说中中国原始社会的统治者）的小女儿在东海上划船。正当她划得高兴时，海面上突然升起一阵大风，把她的小船弄翻了。就在她要被汹涌的波浪吞没时，她的灵魂变成了一只美丽的小鸟。它飞过那咆哮的海面，伤心的叫着“精卫，精卫”的声音。所以人们就叫她“精卫”。
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".
精卫鸟住在靠海的一座山上。它非常恨大海，所以决心要把它填平。它每天来回于山海之间，把从山上衔来的小树枝和小石子扔在大海里。
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.
一天，咆哮的大海对精卫说：“可怜的小鸟，停止你那无谓的举动吧！你是永远都填不平我的。”精卫回答说：“我当然会把你填平的！即使这需要千千万万年的时间，我也一定会斗争到底，直到你的末日来临！”
One day, the roaring sea said to Jingwei, "Poor little bird, stop doing that meaningless thing! You'll never fill me up." Jingwei replied, "I'll fill you up no doubt! I will, even if it'll take me thousands of years! I'll fight on until doomsday!"
这只勇敢的小鸟继续从山上衔来小树枝和小石子，扔到东海中，从未有片刻休息。
The brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the Eastern Sea without taking a rest.
“精卫填海”这个成语就是由这个传说而来的，形容那些坚定不移，不屈不挠，不到目的决不罢休的人。
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.
汹涌 surge ................ 灵魂 spirit ............... 咆哮 roaring
无谓 meaningless ...... 末日 doomsday ...... 坚定不移 firm
不屈不挠 indomitable
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