在中国古代神话中,有一位非常伟大的女神,她的名字叫女娲。
传说中,女娲创造了人类,所以人们把她当作母亲一样尊敬。
后来,她还做了一件非常重要的事情,那就是补天。
很久很久以前,世界上发生了一场巨大的灾难。
天上的两个神仙打起仗来,结果把支撑天空的大柱子撞断了。
天空破了一个大洞,大地出现了很多裂缝。
森林燃起大火,洪水从地下涌出来,凶猛的野兽到处伤害人类。
人们每天都很害怕,生活得很不安心。
女娲看到人类遭受这么大的痛苦,心里非常难过。
她决定想办法拯救人类,把天补好。
补天不是一件容易的事情。
女娲先是去黄河边找了很多五彩的石头,然后生火,把石头烧成很热很热的石头水。
接着,她捧着这些滚烫的石头水,飞到天上,一点一点地把那个大洞补好。
就这样,她来来回回飞了很多很多次,终于把天补得和原来一样平整。
天补好了以后,女娲又去做其他几件事。
她杀死了一只很大的乌龟,用它的四只脚当做新的大柱子,把天的四个角重新支撑起来。
她还赶走了凶恶的黑龙,用草木灰堵住了地上不断流水的裂缝。
经过女娲的努力,天空不再漏水,洪水慢慢退去,大火也被扑灭了。
野兽回到山林里,不敢再伤害人类。
世界又恢复了平静,人们可以安心地生活、工作。
太阳照常升起和落下,一年四季也正常变换。
传说女娲后来一直生活在天上,默默地关注着人间。
直到今天,还有很多人记得女娲补天的故事。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 中国 | Zhōng guó | China |
| 古代 | gǔ dài | ancient times |
| 神话 | shén huà | legend / fairy tale / myth / mythology |
| 中 | zhōng | within; among; in |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 位 | wèi | classifier for people (honorific) |
| 非常 | fēi cháng | very; really |
| 伟大 | wěi dà | huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc) |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 女神 | nǚ shén | goddess |
| 她 | tā | she |
| 名字 | míng zi | name (of a person or thing) |
| 叫 | jiào | to be called |
| 女娲 | Nǚ wā | Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology) |
| 传说 | chuán shuō | legend; folk tale |
| 创造 | chuàng zào | to create / to bring about / to produce / to set (a record) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 人类 | rén lèi | humanity / human race / mankind |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore / as a result / so |
| 人们 | rén men | people |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 当作 | dàng zuò | to treat as / to regard as |
| 母亲 | mǔ qīn | mother |
| 一样 | yī yàng | just like |
| 尊敬 | zūn jìng | to respect; to revere; to esteem |
| 后来 | hòu lái | afterwards; later |
| 还 | hái | in addition, also, else, even |
| 做 | zuò | to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) |
| 件 | jiàn | classifier for events, things, clothes etc |
| 重要 | zhòng yào | important; significant; major |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business |
| 那 | nà | (specifier) that; the; those / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) |
| 就是 | jiù shì | exactly; precisely / only; simply; just / even; even if |
| 补 | bǔ | to repair / to patch / to mend / to make up for / to fill (a vacancy) / to supplement |
| 天 | tiān | sky |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 久 | jiǔ | (of a period of time) long |
| 以前 | yǐ qián | before / formerly / previous / ago |
| 世界 | shì jiè | world |
| 上 | shàng | (noun suffix) on; above |
| 发生 | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out |
| 场 | cháng | classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout |
| 巨大 | jù dà | huge; immense; enormous; gigantic |
| 灾难 | zāi nàn | disaster; catastrophe |
| 天上 | tiān shàng | the sky; the heavens |
| 两 | liǎng | two / both / some / a few |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 神仙 | shén xiān | Daoist immortal / supernatural entity / (in modern fiction) fairy, elf, leprechaun etc / fig. lighthearted person |
| 打 | dǎ | to hit; to strike / to fight |
| 起 | qǐ | verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) |
| 仗 | zhàng | war / battle |
| 来 | lái | hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker) |
| 结果 | jié guǒ | in the end; as a result |
| 支撑 | zhī chēng | to prop up / to support |
| 天空 | tiān kōng | sky |
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest |
| 柱子 | zhù zi | pillar |
| 撞 | zhuàng | to knock against / to bump into / to run into / to meet by accident |
| 断 | duàn | to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge |
| 破 | pò | to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of |
| 洞 | dòng | cave / hole / zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers) |
| 大地 | dà dì | earth |
| 出现 | chū xiàn | to appear / to arise / to emerge / to show up |
| 很多 | hěn duō | many; a lot of |
| 裂缝 | liè fèng | crack / crevice |
| 森林 | sēn lín | forest |
| 燃 | rán | to burn / to ignite / to light / to start (debate) / to raise (hopes) |
| 火 | huǒ | fire / ammunition / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / Kangxi radical 86 |
| 洪水 | hóng shuǐ | deluge; flood |
| 从 | cóng | from; through; via / (bound form) retainer; attendant / (bound form) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor |
| 地下 | dì xià | underground |
| 涌 | yǒng | to bubble up / to rush forth |
| 出来 | chu lai | (after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect) |
| 凶猛 | xiōng měng | fierce / violent / ferocious |
| 野兽 | yě shòu | beast / wild animal |
| 到处 | dào chù | everywhere |
| 伤害 | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 每 | měi | each / every |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 害怕 | hài pà | to be afraid; to be scared |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live |
| 得 | de | structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 安心 | ān xīn | at ease |
| 看 | kàn | to see; to look at / to read / to watch / to visit; to call on / to consider; to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for |
| 到 | dào | to reach; to arrive / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) |
| 遭受 | zāo shòu | to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune) |
| 这么 | zhè me | so much / this much / how much? |
| 痛苦 | tòng kǔ | pain / suffering |
| 心里 | xīn lǐ | chest / heart; mind |
| 难过 | nán guò | to feel sad |
| 决定 | jué dìng | to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind |
| 想 | xiǎng | to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) |
| 办法 | bàn fǎ | way of handling sth; means; measure; (practical) solution to a problem |
| 拯救 | zhěng jiù | to save; to rescue |
| 好 | hǎo | (verb complement indicating completion) |
| 不是 | bù shì | is not |
| 容易 | róng yì | easy; straightforward |
| 先 | xiān | beforehand; first; earlier / at first; originally / for the time being; for now |
| 是 | shì | indeed (used for emphasis) |
| 去 | qù | to go, to go to |
| 黄河 | Huáng Hé | Yellow River or Huang He |
| 边 | biān | side / edge / margin / border / boundary |
| 找 | zhǎo | to try to find / to look for / to call on sb / to find / to seek |
| 五彩 | wǔ cǎi | multicolored |
| 石头 | shí tou | stone |
| 然后 | rán hòu | then; after that; afterwards |
| 生 | shēng | to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) |
| 烧 | shāo | to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head |
| 成 | chéng | to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right |
| 热 | rè | heat |
| 水 | shuǐ | water / (after a name) ... River / (bound form) additional cost; extra income |
| 接着 | jiē zhe | then / after that / subsequently / in turn / in one's turn |
| 捧 | pěng | to hold or offer with both hands / to sing the praises of |
| 着 | zhe | aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state |
| 这些 | zhè xiē | these |
| 滚烫 | gǔn tàng | boiling hot |
| 飞 | fēi | to fly |
| 一点 | yī diǎn | a bit; a little bit / (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit / (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er |
| 地 | de | -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 这样 | zhè yàng | this way; like this; so |
| 来来回回 | lái lái huí huí | back and forth / repeatedly to and fro |
| 次 | cì | classifier for enumerated events: time |
| 终于 | zhōng yú | at last / in the end / finally / eventually |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 原来 | yuán lái | original; former |
| 平整 | píng zhěng | smooth |
| 以后 | yǐ hòu | after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future |
| 又 | yòu | (once) again |
| 其他 | qí tā | other / (sth or sb) else / the rest |
| 几 | jǐ | several / a few |
| 事 | shì | matter / thing / item / affair |
| 杀 | shā | to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack / to weaken; to reduce / (dialect) to smart |
| 死 | sǐ | to die |
| 只 | zhī | classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc |
| 乌龟 | wū guī | tortoise / cuckold |
| 用 | yòng | to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using |
| 它的 | tā de | its; belonging to it |
| 四 | sì | four / 4 |
| 脚 | jiǎo | foot / leg (of an animal or an object) / base (of an object) |
| 当做 | dàng zuò | to treat as / to regard as / to look upon as |
| 新 | xīn | new; newly |
| 角 | jiǎo | angle / corner / horn / unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime) |
| 重新 | chóng xīn | again; once more; re- |
| 起来 | qǐ lái | indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement / indicating completion / expressing preliminary judgment |
| 赶走 | gǎn zǒu | to drive out / to turn back |
| 凶恶 | xiōng è | fierce / frightening |
| 黑 | hēi | black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal |
| 龙 | lóng | Chinese dragon; loong / (fig.) emperor / dragon / (bound form) dinosaur |
| 草木灰 | cǎo mù huī | plant ash |
| 堵 | dǔ | to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) |
| 住 | zhù | (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state) |
| 地上 | dì shang | on the ground / on the floor |
| 不断 | bù duàn | unceasing / uninterrupted / continuous / constant |
| 流 | liú | to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile |
| 经过 | jīng guò | to pass / to go through |
| 努力 | nǔ lì | to make an effort; to try hard; to strive |
| 不再 | bù zài | no more; no longer |
| 漏 | lòu | to leak / to divulge / to leave out by mistake |
| 慢慢 | màn màn | slowly; gradually |
| 退 | tuì | to retreat; to withdraw / to reject; to return (sth) / to decline |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 被 | bèi | used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes |
| 扑灭 | pū miè | to eradicate / to extinguish |
| 回 | huí | to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return |
| 山 | shān | mountain; hill / (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on |
| 林 | lín | (bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things) |
| 里 | lǐ | lining / interior / inside |
| 敢 | gǎn | to dare |
| 再 | zài | again; once more; re- |
| 恢复 | huī fù | to reinstate / to resume / to restore / to recover / to regain / to rehabilitate |
| 平静 | píng jìng | tranquil / undisturbed / serene |
| 可以 | kě yǐ | can / may / possible / able to |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | job / work / task |
| 太阳 | tài yáng | sun / sunlight; sunshine / temple (on the side of the human head) |
| 照常 | zhào cháng | as usual |
| 升起 | shēng qǐ | to raise / to hoist / to rise |
| 落下 | luò xià | to fall / to drop / to land (of projectile) |
| 年 | nián | year |
| 季 | jì | season / the last month of a season / fourth or youngest amongst brothers |
| 正常 | zhèng cháng | regular / normal / ordinary |
| 变换 | biàn huàn | to transform / to convert / to vary / to alternate |
| 一直 | yī zhí | straight (in a straight line) / continuously; always; all the way through |
| 默默 | mò mò | in silence; not speaking |
| 关注 | guān zhù | to pay attention to; to follow sth closely; to follow (on social media) |
| 人间 | rén jiān | the human world / the earth |
| 直到 | zhí dào | until |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | the present time; now |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 记得 | jì de | to remember |
| 故事 | gù shi | narrative; story; tale |