“吐谷浑国”的国王阿豺让他的二十个儿子每人拿一支箭来,这时,阿豺的同胞弟弟慕利延走了过来。阿豺让慕利延拿一支箭折断,慕利延很容易就把一支箭折断了,阿豺又让慕利延把余下的十九支箭拿来一起折断,慕利延用尽了力气也不能把十九支箭同时折断。阿豺说:“一支箭很容易折断,但很多箭就不容易折断,只要你们齐心协力,我们的国家一定会‘牢不可破’”。 King Ah Jackal of the Tuyuhun Kingdom asked his twenty sons each to bring an arrow. At this moment, Ah Jackal's brother Muriyan came over. Ah Jackal asked Mu Liyan to break an arrow, which was easy for Mu Liyan to break. Ah Jackal also asked Mu Liyan to bring the remaining nineteen arrows and break them together. Mu Liyan exhausted all his strength and could not break the nineteen arrows at the same time. Ah Jackal said, "An arrow is easy to break, but many arrows are not easy to break. As long as you work together, our country will definitely be 'unbreakable'. 这个寓言说明了‘单者易折,众者难摧’的道理。 This fable illustrates the principle that 'one is easy to break, but many are difficult to break'.
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