守株待兔 – 成语故事

古时候，宋国有个农夫。他每天在田里辛苦地干活。

有一天，一只兔子飞快地跑过来，一头撞在田边的树桩上，晕倒了。农夫没费一点力气就捡到了一只肥兔子，高兴极了。

农夫想：“要是每天都能捡到兔子，我就不用种地了！”从此，他放下锄头，整天坐在树桩旁边，等着兔子再撞上来。

日子一天天过去，再也没有兔子撞到树桩上，田里却长满了野草。农夫什么也没得到，还被大家笑话。这就是成语“守株待兔”的故事。

道理 (Moral of the Story)

不能靠运气过日子，只有努力才会有收获。

English Summary

A farmer in ancient China sees a rabbit run into a tree stump and catches it without effort. Hoping for more free rabbits, he abandons his fields and waits by the stump every day. No rabbit ever comes again and his crops are overrun with weeds. The origin of the idiom “waiting by the stump for a rabbit.”

生词 (Vocabulary)

• 成语 (chéngyǔ) – idiom
• 农夫 (nóngfū) – farmer
• 树桩 (shùzhuāng) – tree stump
• 兔子 (tùzi) – rabbit
• 运气 (yùnqi) – luck
• 努力 (nǔlì) – effort, hard work

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