放牧群山以成林（初级中级）

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今天这个中级偏下的故事叫《赶山造林》。

Today's pre intermediate story is called Herding Mountains to Make a Forest.

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今天的故事来自中国的一个少数民族——撒尼人。

So today's story comes from the Sani people in China.

撒尼人是彝族的一个分支，属于彝族中较小的一支。

So the Sani are a subset, they are a smaller part of the YI, Yi YI ethnic minority.

中国官方认定的少数民族一共有55个。

There are 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities in China.

中国大多数人口是汉族，但还有傣族、哈尼族、白族，你可能听说过的一些民族，比如哈萨克族、乌兹别克族、朝鲜族等等。

So the majority of Chinese citizens are Han, but you also have Dai, he, Gino, some you might have heard of like Kazakh, Uzbek, Korean and so on.

这个故事来自云南的撒尼人，云南位于中国西部。

And this story comes from the Sani people who come from Yunnan in Western China.

在讲这个故事之前，我想说说我是怎么发现它的，因为这对我来说简直像画了个圆满的句号。所谓‘圆满的句号’，就是你经历了一件事，突然把所有线索都串起来了。我是在云南的石林发现这个故事的，石林是个旅游景点，中文叫‘石林’，那里是一片石头森林，由于特殊的地质条件，岩石形成了像树一样尖锐挺拔的形状，非常壮观，你可以亲自去参观。

So before I tell the story, I want to give a bit of the background about how I found this story because it was kind of a full circle moment for me, so a full circle moment is when you have an experience that kind of finishes a story, it ties everything together, so I found this story in Stone Forest or in Chinese Shilin, which is a tourist attraction in Yunnan, it is a, well, it's a forest made of stone, it's an area of Cast Mountain where basically certain geological conditions caused the rocks to make these very distinct kind of sharp, tree like shapes, and it's very beautiful and you can go and visit it.

那为什么去石林对我来说是一次圆满的回归呢？

So why was going to Stone Forest a full circle moment for me?

我是在2010年开始学中文的。

Well, I started studying Chinese in 2010.

那可是很久以前了，十六年前，我刚上大学的时候。

Oh, that's a long time ago, sixteen years, when I first went to university.

我去牛津学中文，但那门课的很多地方我都不是很喜欢。

I went to Oxford to study Chinese, and there were various aspects of the course I didn't like.

我觉得它太陈旧了。

I didn't like how old fashioned it was.

它太侧重古典汉语和中国历史，而现代汉语的教学，在我看来简直糟糕透顶——全是老掉牙的语法练习、翻译，用的还是那种过时的教材，人人都管对方叫‘同志’。

I didn't like that it focused so heavily on, like, classical Chinese and Chinese history, and then the modern Chinese was taught, in my opinion, very poorly, like it was the most kind of traditional boring grammar exercises, translation, you know, using an outdated textbook where everyone still called each other comrade.

这种教语言的方式，既枯燥又低效。

It was just a very uninspired and honestly ineffective way of teaching a language.

所以学了一年之后，我就决定退学了。

So after studying there for a year, I decided to drop out.

我决定离开牛津，去学语言学。

I decided to leave Oxford University to go and study linguistics.

我其实考虑过在牛津转专业，但他们语言学必须搭配一门语言，我不确定自己想这么选，我更想单独学语言学，所以休学一年重新申请，最后去了剑桥学语言学。

I did consider changing courses at Oxford, but, they only offer linguistics with a language, and I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that, I kind of wanted to just do linguistics by itself, so I took a year out to reapply and I ended up going to Cambridge to study linguistics.

说起来还不错，至少我现在能说，我既在牛津也上过剑桥。

So I did okay, because in the end, I can say that I studied at both Oxford and Cambridge.

但说到底，这段经历让我对中文产生了很复杂的情绪，因为我退学后基本就停了中文学习，后来也有些后悔，总觉得有件事没做完——不是我对中文或中国文化没兴趣，只是那时候的环境、方式和时机都不对。

But anyway, this experience left me with some complicated feelings about Chinese because I pretty much stopped studying Chinese after I dropped out, and later on I maybe had some regrets, I thought there was something that was left unresolved because it wasn't like I had no interest in studying Chinese or Chinese culture, but it just wasn't the right time and style and place for me to be doing it.

而且说实话，当时我真的很需要自己做这个决定，因为我上大学时根本没想清楚自己想干什么，甚至有点被推着做了选择。

And also, to be honest, I, at that point, really needed to just make that decision for myself because I didn't really choose what I wanted to do at university or rather I was very undecided and I slightly felt like I was just pushed into making that decision.

我本来打算学日语，但所有课程都是零基础班。

I was going to do Japanese at university, but all of the university courses were ab initio, which means starting from scratch, starting from zero.

可我日语已经说得不错了，明明会说，还要从头学起，这实在有点荒唐。

And I already spoke really good Japanese, so it seemed really stupid to study a language from scratch when I already spoke it.

对吧？

Right?

所以别人都说，你干脆学中文吧。

So people said, oh, you should just do Chinese.

你不是已经会日语了吗？

You already speak Japanese.

你语言天赋这么好。

You're good at languages.

你去学中文吧。

You should do Chinese.

我就随大流听了他们的建议，可后来我才意识到，不对劲。

So I kind of just did what people told me, and then later on, I was like, no.

我想自己做决定，这才是我退学、转去学语言学的原因。

I wanna make this decision for myself, which is why I dropped out and ended up doing linguistics.

所以，我对中文一直有种复杂的情绪，之后几乎没怎么学，就随便碰了那么一点。直到2023年，我参加了在法国南部举办的AGEN研讨会，那是个语言教学会议，专门给像我这样用讲故事方式教语言的人办的。

So anyway, I was left with these complicated feelings about Chinese, I didn't really study it or I studied it like a tiny bit after that, but then in 2023, I went to the AGEN workshop, which is a language teaching conference in the South Of France, it's a conference for people who teach languages using storytelling such as me.

在那个会上，他们设有语言体验工坊。

And at this conference, they do language labs.

每天早上你都会去旁听其他老师教的不同语言课程。

So every morning you go and observe classes from another teacher in a variety of languages.

我去了一个由黛安·诺伊鲍尔授课的中文课堂。

So I went to a Chinese language lab where Diane Neubauer was teaching.

黛安·诺伊鲍尔是一位非常出色的美国中文教师，我旁听了她的课，感觉特别好——终于有人把中文教得这么到位，温暖、亲切、有耐心，还特别有趣。

So Diane Neubauer is a fantastic American teacher of Chinese, and I observed her Chinese language lab, and it was just a lovely experience because I got to learn Chinese in a good way, like taught really well, taught in a very warm, approachable, patient, and fun way.

黛安整个课程都是围绕石林和撒尼人展开的，因为她曾经住在中国云南。

And the whole course that Diane did was based around the Stone Forest and the Sani people because she had lived in Yunnan, China.

这种教学方式很不一样，毕竟大多数关于中国的介绍都只聚焦于汉族——这个国家的主体民族，我们很少听到关于少数民族的故事。

So it was a really different approach because obviously most information about China just focuses on the Han people who are the ethnic majority in the country, and we don't really hear much about the ethnic minorities.

用这种方式了解中国文化真让人耳目一新，了解石林的故事特别有意思，也让我心里暗暗下定决心：总有一天，我要去云南。

So it was a lovely different way to learn about Chinese culture, it was lovely to learn about Stone Forest, and it just really left me with this feeling of, oh, one day I would like to go to Yunnan.

你猜怎么着？

And guess what happened?

那一天真的来了。

That day came.

不过我有点跑题了。

But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself.

上完那门课后，我对中文重新产生了兴趣。

After I did that course, it revived my interest in Chinese.

它让我又想学中文了。

It made me interested in learning Chinese again.

我跟着戴安娜·诺伊鲍尔上了一门在线课程。

I did an online course with Diane Neubauer.

我开始自己学习，看YouTube视频、听播客、读书。

I started doing self study through watching YouTube videos, listening to podcasts, reading.

但去年，我最终搬到了中国。

But then finally, last year, I moved to China.

这当然让我的中文学习变得更紧张了。

So that certainly made my Chinese study a bit more intense.

但正如我所说，我一直想有朝一日去云南，一个月前我本来计划和父母去柬埔寨，结果最划算的航班是先飞到云南的昆明，待一天，再转机去柬埔寨的暹粒。

But yeah, as I said, I knew I wanted to go to Yunnan at some point, and then a month ago I was planning on going to Cambodia with my parents and the best flight option was to fly to Kunming, which is in Yunnan, stay a day there and then fly to Siem Reap in Cambodia.

所以特别巧，我在昆明待了一天，正好能去石林，坐出租车离市区一个半小时左右。

So it was perfect because I had a day in Kunming, and I could go to the Stone Forest, which is about an hour and a half by taxi from the city.

这简直就是天作之合。

So it was actually the ideal situation.

当然，我很想再回昆明，多待几天，把云南其他地方也逛一逛。

Obviously, would love to visit Kunming again and spend more time there and visit more of Yunnan.

这里是全球菌类种类最丰富的地方，作为个爱吃菌子的美食爱好者，我觉得特别吸引人。

It is the area with the highest diversity of mushrooms in the world, and I find that very exciting as someone who loves food and mushrooms.

石林的人比我想象中多太多了。

Stone Forest was a lot busier than I expected.

中国的旅游业特别热闹，也特别成熟。

Tourism is very boisterous in China, and it's very developed.

我本来以为，会像英国那些自然景点那样，有个停车场，再搭几个小吃摊、几个厕所，就完事了。

So, you know, I think I had this image that it would be like these nature sites in The UK where there might be like a car park and maybe some food stalls and some toilets, but that's it.

结果完全不是，一进去就有大型游客中心，坐大巴进去，沿途全是摊位和餐馆，出来的时候又是一整条长廊，全是餐厅和商店，大巴再把你拉到另一个满是店铺和建筑的地方，我觉得有点太商业化了。

But no, it was like, oh, there's a big tourist information center, you get a bus in, then there's a bunch of stalls, and there's a food places, and then when you come back, there's a whole, like, massive corridor of, restaurants and shops, and then the bus drives you back to another place where there are, like, all of these shops and buildings, and I found it a bit over touristy.

那里也出乎意料地人很多。

It was also surprisingly busy.

我是在春节当天去的，那年是马年，本来以为人会少点，毕竟觉得大家都会在家陪家人，结果发现本地人反而想找地方出来走走。

I went on Lunar New Year's Day, so the first day of the year of the horse, and I think I thought it would be less busy because I guess I thought people would be spending time with their family, but I guess people, local people were looking for something to do.

虽然人很多，但景色确实很美。

So there were a lot of people that still it was very beautiful.

在石林时我注意到，当地的导游大多是撒尼族人，他们都穿着传统服饰带游客参观。

It was interesting to see that all the local tour guides there were a lot of local Sani tour guides, and they all wear their traditional clothes as they guide people around.

在石林，我了解到这个名字其实是上世纪三十年代一位中国官员取的。

While at the Stone Forest, I learned that the name actually comes from a Chinese governor in the nineteen thirties.

当时云南省的省长在省内巡视，路过石林觉得景色壮丽，就给它起了这个名字，还让人把‘石林’两个字刻在了石头上，挺有意思的。

The Chinese provincial governor of Yunnan was traveling the province, and he came to Stone Forest and thought it was beautiful, so he named it and he asked them to carve the characters for Stone Forest into one of the rocks, which is kind of funny.

这种做法挺有殖民色彩的，不过嘛。

It's it's a very colonial kind of way of doing things, but yeah.

原本，对撒尼人来说，这里是个神圣或重要的地方，但并没有这种被正式命名的头衔。

So originally, I think it was a kind of sacred or important site for the Sani people, but it didn't have this kind of named status, shall we say.

在石林里闲逛时，我偶然听到了它的起源传说。

While wandering the Stone Forest, I also discovered the origin story.

撒尼人有个很美的神话，讲的是这片石林是怎么来的，今天我就来讲讲这个故事。

So the Sani people have a lovely myth about how this forest came to be, and that's exactly the story we're doing today.

如果你去云南，我真心推荐你去看看石林，尤其是你喜欢奇特岩石景观的话——谁不爱这种大自然的奇观呢？不过最好避开旺季。

I do recommend you visit the Stone Forest if you happen to go to Yunnan, I think it's a cool place, if you like cool rock formations, and who doesn't love a cool rock formation, It's definitely worth visiting, but try to avoid the peak season.

幸运的是，云南的一大优势就是全年气候都很宜人。

Fortunately, one of the best things about Yunnan is it basically has good weather all year round.

昆明被称为‘春城’，一年四季都像春天。

Kunming is known as the city of eternal spring.

全年温度基本维持在20到25度之间，所以什么时候去都合适。

It ranges from 20 to 25 degrees all year, so you can go at basically any time.

虽然石林并没有像我当初期待的那样，变成一个梦幻般的高光时刻，但能在这里亲历这一切，却让我觉得特别圆满——因为正是为了跟戴安娜学中文，我才重新拾起这门语言。

So although the Stone Forest wasn't this beautiful magical moment that I had maybe hoped it would be, It did feel like a full circle moment to have the reason I got back into studying Chinese with Diane Neubauer to have this experience.

这一切仿佛在说：你看，我做到了。

It kind of brought it all together like, look at me.

我现在住在中国。

I live in China now.

就像我当年在牛津一起学中文的朋友说的，我来中国，就像是我当初如果没放弃那个学位，本该经历的那一年海外学习。

And as my friend said, who I studied with way back in Oxford in the day, me coming to China is a bit like me during the year abroad that I would have done if I had stayed studying that degree.

说实话，我不太想说得太伤感，但我过去真的对在中国、学中文、还有退学这些事感到很羞愧。

And I don't know, not to get too emotional about it, I really did have a lot of shame based around China, learning Chinese, dropping out to university.

这些情绪我一直背了好多年。

It was something I carried around for a long time.

所以来中国，对我来说是个特别艰难的决定。

So coming to China was a really difficult decision.

我花了很久才下定决心：不管以前怎样，这次我一定要做下去。

Like, it really took me a lot of courage to say, no, I am gonna do this, even though I dropped out before.

其实说到底，我以前有没有上过大学、学没学过中文、是中途放弃还是毕业，这些都不重要了，现在这个选择完全是另一回事，我过得特别开心。

When, of course, actually, that doesn't matter, you know, whether I studied Chinese at university before or didn't, whether I had dropped out or finished, this decision is a completely separate thing that I'm enjoying very very much.

是的。

So yes.

好的。

Okay.

我来解释一下今天故事里的几个词。

I'll just explain some words in today's story.

一群动物叫一个畜群。

A herd is a group of animals.

比如羊群、猪群、牛群等等。

A herd of sheep, a herd of pigs, a herd of cows and so on.

赶牲口就是把它们集中在一起移动。

When you herd animals, you move them together in a group.

比如牧羊人会赶羊。

For example, shepherds herd sheep.

牧羊人会用一种叫德国牧羊犬的狗来帮忙赶羊。

Shepherds use a special dog called a German shepherd to help herd the sheep.

他们会把羊赶到不同的草场，让它们能吃到各种草。

They herd the sheep and move them around different fields so they can eat all the different grass.

桶是一个圆形的容器，用来装水。

A bucket is a round thing that you use to carry water.

桶的大小跟垃圾桶差不多。

Buckets are about the size of rubbish bins.

你可以往桶里装水，或者沙子、牛奶之类的，然后提着把手把它搬走。

You fill the buckets up with water or maybe sand or milk or something like that, and then you pick up the handle of the bucket and carry it.

去海滩玩的时候，我们也会用桶来堆沙堡。

We also use buckets when we go to the beach to build a sand castle.

灵魂就像幽灵一样。

A spirit is like a ghost.

有些文化认为，灵魂就存在于我们体内。

In some cultures, they believe that spirits live inside us.

通过魔法，我们的灵魂可以离开身体，四处飘荡。

With magic, our spirits can leave our bodies and fly around.

有些文化相信，人去世后，灵魂就会离开身体。

In some cultures, people believe that when you die, your spirit leaves your body.

在一些文化里，灵魂会住在石头、树木、河流这些地方。

And in some cultures, spirits live in rocks, trees, rivers, and so on.

命令就是你让人去做某件事。

An order is when you tell someone to do something.

比如，你的老板可能会让你写一份报告。

For example, your boss might order you to write a report.

命令可以是书面的，也可以是口头的。

Orders can be written or spoken.

书面命令通常比较正式。

A written order is usually quite formal.

鞭子，w-h-i-p，是一种长条状的东西，用来从远处抽打动物。

A whip, w h I p, is a long object that you use to hit animals with from far away.

你把鞭子在空中甩一圈，然后用它抽中目标。

You swing a whip around in the air and then strike the thing you want to hit with it.

鞭子抽起来会发出‘啪’的一声。

Whips make a sound like whipsh.

印第安纳·琼斯用鞭子荡过宽阔的缝隙，或者够远处的东西，但这可不是鞭子平常的用法。

Indiana Jones uses a whip to swing across big gaps and to get objects from far away, but that's not normally the way whips are used.

平时不使用鞭子的时候，它通常是卷起来的，但当你想用的时候，就得把它展开。

When you're holding a whip but not using it, it's usually rolled up, but when you want to use the whip, you unfurl it, spread it out.

你得先把鞭子展开，才能在空中挥动。

You have to unfurl the whip so you can swing it in the air.

水坝是建在大河上的堤墙。

Dams are walls that are built on top of large rivers.

水坝能拦住河水，把水积起来，供周边地区使用。

Dams stop a river's flow and collect the water so that it can be used to provide water for an area.

海狸用木头筑水坝，造出一片水域，这样就能避开想吃它们的动物，冬天还能把食物存在那里。

Beavers build dams out of wood to make an area of water where they are protected from animals that want to eat them, and they can store their food there over winter.

公鸡就是雄性的鸡。

A rooster is a male chicken.

公鸡比母鸡体型更大，羽毛也更鲜艳。

Roosters are larger and more colorful than hens, female chickens.

公鸡还会在早上大声打鸣，咯咯打鸣。

Roosters also crow, call out loudly in the morning, Cock a doodle doo.

‘freeze’ 是原形，过去式是 ‘froze’，表示某物变得非常冷。

Freeze and the past tense is froze is what happens when something goes very cold.

水一旦变得很冷，就会结冰。

When water gets very cold, it freezes.

如果河或湖结冰了，你就能在上面走路。

If a river or a lake freezes, you can walk on it.

如果外面天气特别冷，你可以说：‘哇，冷死了。’

If the weather is very cold outside, you can say, oh, it's freezing.

如果你正在移动，然后突然停下，那就是 froze。

If you are moving and then you suddenly stop moving, you freeze.

比如警察要抓人时，就会喊：‘不许动！’

For example, when the police want to catch someone, they say, freeze.

是警察。

It's the police.

好的。

Okay.

仔细听，好好感受。

So listen and enjoy.

把山赶在一起，变成一片森林。

Herding mountains to make a forest.

很久以前，撒尼人生活非常贫困。

Once, a long time ago, the Sani people were very poor.

一下雨，他们就用桶接雨水来喝。

When it rained, they caught the rain in buckets and drank the water.

可一旦不下雨，桶就空了，人们也就没水喝。

But when it didn't rain, their buckets went empty and the people went thirsty.

有时候渴得厉害，连路都走不动。

Sometimes they were so thirsty that they could not move.

在撒尼人当中，有一位英雄，名叫金分若嘎。

Among the Sani was a hero, a man named Jinfenroga.

金芬罗加不仅强壮，还非常聪明。

Jinfenroga was not only strong but also clever.

他从未输过一场打斗，也从未在争论中败过。

He had never lost a fight and he had never lost an argument either.

一天，经过长时间的酷热干旱，金芬罗加看着空空的水桶，对族人说：我们不能再这样干等着下雨了。

One day after a long period of hot dry weather, Jinfenroga looked at the empty buckets and said, my people, we cannot go on waiting for the rain like this.

如果水不来找我们，那我就去把水带来。

If the water will not come to us, then I will bring it to us.

于是，金芬罗加等到夜晚，便出发了。

So Jinfurlga waited for night and then set off.

他先去了那些奇异灵体居住的洞穴。

First, he went to the caves where strange spirits lived.

他悄悄溜进去，因为灵体们正在睡觉，偷走了两件宝物：移山令和牧山鞭。

He went quietly inside because the spirits were sleeping and stole two valuable objects, the mountain moving order and the mountain herding whip.

这些灵体以前靠这两样东西躲着撒尼人。

The spirits used these to hide from the Sani.

当萨尼人靠近时，那些灵体就会移动山峦，让萨尼人看不见他们。

When the Sani came near, the spirits would move the mountains so that the Sani could not see them.

等萨尼人一走，灵体就把山重新放回原位。

And when the Sani left, the spirits would return the mountains to their usual places.

但金富罗格根本没打算用这些魔法物品来做这种事。

But Jinfurl, Rooger did not plan on using the magic objects for that.

相反，他走到一片高大绵延的山脉之间。

Instead, he walked to a place with many long, tall mountains.

他举起山移令，开始念诵起来。

He held up the mountain moving order and began to read it.

金凡德·罗格是萨尼人中少数会读书的人，他知道阅读的力量有多强大。

Jinfand Rooger was one of the few in the Sani who knew how to read, and he knew how powerful reading could be.

滴答，滴答。

Tick a tuck tuck.

咔嚓。

A rack.

一排。

A rack.

蒙蒂尼，敦蒂尼，斯凯利·威利。

Montiny, Duntiny, Skily Willie.

他总是莫名其妙地瞎折腾。

He's always a moo voo yoo voo.

稀里哗啦，啪嗒一声。

Wackily, wackily, whack.

当他念出魔法咒语时，山峦开始移动了。

As he read the magic words, the mountains began to move.

起初，它们只是微微颤动，就像孩子从深睡中醒来一样。

At first, they only shook slightly, like a child waking from a deep sleep.

但渐渐地，它们开始跳跃奔跑，仿佛长出了脚，急着要去某个地方。

But slowly, they began to jump and run as if they had grown feet and were in a hurry to get somewhere.

但在山峦逃走之前，金福尔挥起了他的赶山鞭，使出全身力气抽了下去。

But before the mountains could run away, Jinfurl the mountain herding whip and swung it with all his strength.

嗖——

Whoosh.

鞭子抽在地上，所有山峰都吓得尖叫起来。

The whip struck the ground and all the mountains screamed in fear.

要是山能说话，它们大概就只会喊这个了。

All they would have, if mountains could talk.

它们全都聚成了一团，有些吓得直发抖，等着听金福尔·鲁格怎么说。

They all moved into one group, some so scared they were shaking and waited to hear what Jinfurl Rooger had to say.

山啊，我的族人已经干渴太久了。

Mountains, my people have been thirsty for too long.

我要修一座水坝，你们得帮我。

I am going to build a dam and you are going to help me.

你们跟我到河边，躺下来，让我拦住水流，这样我的族人就永远有水喝了。

You will come with me to the river and lie down so that I can dam the water and my people will always have something to drink.

听明白了吗？

Understood?

要是山有脑袋，这时候早就拼命点头了。

If the mountains had heads, they would have been nodding them furiously.

于是，金夫罗加带着山们上路了。

So Jinfenroga set off with the mountains.

他们翻山越岭，直行拐弯，走遍了各地。

They walked through the hills up and down, straight and around.

遇到山走得慢，金夫罗加就展开移山令，念起咒语。

When a mountain was too slow, Jinfenroga opened the mountain moving order and said some magic words.

快点走，别拖后腿。

Hurry up us.

要是有山脱离队伍，他就展开赶山鞭，抽上一鞭。

And when a mountain moved away from the group, he unfurled the mountain herding whip and swung at them.

没过多久，所有山都走得又快又整齐。

Soon, all the mountains were moving quickly and orderly.

连那些灵体也没一个跟在他们身后。

None of the spirits seemed to be following them either.

但当他们经过一片田野时，太阳刚刚升起。

But as they passed through a certain field, the sun was starting to rise.

这片田野里住着一只魔法公鸡。

In this field lived a magic rooster.

每天早上，这只公鸡都会打鸣，叫醒所有的精灵。

Every morning, the rooster crowed to wake up the spirits.

今天早上也是一样。

This morning was no different.

魔法公鸡昂起头，大声啼叫。

The magic rooster held his head high and crowed loudly.

山们听到这声音，惊讶得当场僵在原地。

The mountains, hearing this, were so surprised that they froze in place.

吉芬·罗格急忙念起移山咒语，‘快点走，快点走，像朵雏菊一样’，还接连挥了十几下赶山鞭，可全都没用。

Ginfin Rooger tried reading from the mountain moving order, lazy, lazy, like a daisy, and he unfurled and swung the mountain herding whip a dozen times, but it was no use.

山们彻底动不了了。

The mountains were well and truly frozen.

所以今天，在云南的某个地方，你不会看到水坝，而是一片石林。

And that is why today, in a certain area of Yunnan province, you will not find a dam, but a stone forest.

清晨，你会听到公鸡嘹亮的啼鸣，想忽略都难。

In the morning, you will hear the crow of a rooster loud and impossible to miss.

如果你仔细听，说不定还能听见吉芬罗格对着石头大喊，挥舞着牧鞭。

And if you listen closely, you might even hear Ginfinrogger shouting at the stones and swinging his whip.

故事讲完了。

The end.

希望你们喜欢今天这个故事。

Well, I hope you enjoyed today's story.

你们了解我，我特别爱听这种起源故事。

You know me, I love a good origin story.

我就是喜欢那些解释‘为什么事情会这样’的传说，为什么某样东西会存在。

I love a myth that tells us why something is the way it is, why something exists.

所以当我看到这个故事时，立刻就来了兴趣，赶紧给我讲。

So when I saw this story, I was like, yes, give me that.

我会把这段放上播客。

I'm going to put that on the podcast.

另外，我回来了。

And in other news, I am back.

最近几期节目是一次性录完的。

The last few episodes I recorded batched.

我连着录了好几期。

I recorded them back to back.

其实这些节目是很久以前录的，那时候我正在度假，不过现在我度假回来了。

So, like, I recorded them a really long time ago because I was on holiday, but I'm back from holiday now.

我跟父母去了柬埔寨，玩得特别开心。

I went to Cambodia with my parents, it was really great.

工作已经重新开始了，这学期是第二学期，我也一直在锻炼，一切都挺顺利的，不过更多细节，下周我做对话类节目时再跟你们细聊。

I've started at work again, it's semester two, I've been doing doing lots of exercise, everything is going very well, but you'll hear lots more about that next week when I do a conversational episode.

啰啰嗦嗦说了这么多，我知道你们就爱听这些。

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah I know that's what you all love to hear.

你就喜欢听我这么没完没了地唠叨。

You love to hear me just talk and talk and talk.

好了，谢谢大家收听今天的节目。

Anyway, thank you for listening to today's episode.

祝你今天过得愉快，咱们很快再见。

Have a wonderful day and see you soon.

再见。

Bye.