从前，一户人家的门前有一块大石头。
这块石头不但妨碍大家进出，而且还常常有人被它绊倒。
有一天，这户人家的儿子问他父亲：”爸爸，门前的那块石头那么危险，我们一起来把它搬走吧！
”父亲笑着回答：”那块大石头很重的，我爷爷生活的时代，那块石头就在了。
如果那么简单就能搬走，哪会让它留到现在啊？
”不过，儿子没有放弃。
第二天，他自己用锄头把大石头周围的泥土都挖开，没想到很快整个大石头就松动了。
他赶快叫别人来帮忙，轻而易举地就把那块石头搬走了。
有时阻碍我们去发现、去创造的，正是我们自己一直”认为”的东西。
没有真正尝试过，怎么知道事情一定会像我们想的一样呢？
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 从前 | cóng qián | previously / formerly / once upon a time |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 户 | hù | a household / door / family |
| 人家 | rén jiā | household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 门 | mén | gate / door / gateway / doorway / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) |
| 前 | qián | front / forward / ahead |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 块 | kuài | classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc / (coll.) classifier for money and currency units |
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest |
| 石头 | shí tou | stone |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 不但 | bù dàn | not only (... but also ...) |
| 妨碍 | fáng ài | to hinder / to obstruct |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone |
| 进出 | jìn chū | to enter or exit / to go through |
| 而且 | ér qiě | (not only ...) but also / moreover / in addition / furthermore |
| 还 | hái | in addition, also, else, even |
| 常常 | cháng cháng | frequently; often |
| 有人 | yǒu rén | someone / people / anyone |
| 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 |
| 它 | tā | it |
| 绊 | bàn | to trip / to stumble / to hinder |
| 倒 | dǎo | to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit |
| 有一天 | yǒu yì tiān | one day; at some unspecified day in the past or future |
| 儿子 | ér zi | son |
| 问 | wèn | to ask; to inquire |
| 他 | tā | he; him; his |
| 父亲 | fù qīn | father |
| 爸爸 | bà ba | (coll.) father; dad |
| 那 | nà | (specifier) that; the; those / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) |
| 那么 | nà me | like that; in that way; to that extent |
| 危险 | wēi xiǎn | dangerous |
| 我们 | wǒ men | we; us; ourselves; our |
| 一起 | yī qǐ | together; in company (with) |
| 来 | lái | (between two verbs) in order to |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 搬 | bān | to move / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately |
| 走 | zǒu | from / through / away |
| 吧 | ba | (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise) / ...right? / ...OK? / ...I presume. |
| 笑 | xiào | to laugh; to smile |
| 着 | zhe | aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state |
| 回答 | huí dá | to reply; to answer / reply; answer |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 重 | zhòng | heavy / serious |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 爷爷 | yé ye | (coll.) paternal grandfather; grandpa |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live |
| 时代 | shí dài | age / era / epoch / period (in one's life) |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 在 | zài | to exist; to be alive |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 如果 | rú guǒ | if; in case; in the event that |
| 简单 | jiǎn dān | simple; not complicated |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 哪 | nǎ | how |
| 会 | huì | to be likely to; to be sure to |
| 让 | ràng | to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) |
| 留 | liú | to stay / to remain |
| 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) |
| 现在 | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 啊 | a | modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent |
| 不过 | bù guò | but / however |
| 没有 | méi yǒu | haven't / hasn't |
| 放弃 | fàng qì | to renounce; to abandon; to give up |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 二 | èr | two / 2 |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 用 | yòng | to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using |
| 锄头 | chú tou | hoe |
| 周围 | zhōu wéi | environs; surroundings; periphery |
| 泥土 | ní tǔ | earth; soil; mud; clay |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 挖 | wā | to dig / to excavate / to scoop out |
| 开 | kāi | (directional complement) away; off |
| 没 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 想到 | xiǎng dào | to think of / to call to mind / to anticipate |
| 快 | kuài | soon / almost |
| 整个 | zhěng gè | whole / entire / total |
| 松动 | sōng dòng | loose / slack / (of a place) not crowded |
| 赶快 | gǎn kuài | quickly; at once |
| 叫 | jiào | to order / to ask |
| 别人 | bié rén | other people; others; other person |
| 帮忙 | bāng máng | to help / to lend a hand / to do a favor / to do a good turn |
| 轻而易举 | qīng ér yì jǔ | with no difficulty |
| 地 | de | -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct |
| 有时 | yǒu shí | sometimes / now and then |
| 阻碍 | zǔ ài | to obstruct / to hinder / to block |
| 去 | qù | to go, to go to |
| 发现 | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect |
| 创造 | chuàng zào | to create / to bring about / to produce / to set (a record) |
| 正 | zhèng | exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 一直 | yī zhí | straight (in a straight line) / continuously; always; all the way through |
| 认为 | rèn wéi | to believe; to think; to consider; to feel |
| 东西 | dōng xi | thing / stuff / person |
| 真正 | zhēn zhèng | really; indeed |
| 尝试 | cháng shì | to try; to attempt |
| 过 | guo | (experienced action marker) |
| 怎么 | zěn me | how? / what? / why? |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business |
| 一定 | yī dìng | surely; certainly; definitely |
| 像 | xiàng | to resemble / to be like / to look as if |
| 想 | xiǎng | to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) |
| 一样 | yī yàng | same / like / equal to / the same as |
| 呢 | ne | (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?") |