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course Yelang is bigger!” They walked along, and the king once again lifted up his head, gazed at the big mountain in the distance and asked: “Is there a taller mountain than this anywhere on earth?” And his men answered: “No, there’s no mountain taller than this one on earth.” After a while, they reached the river side, and the king asked again: “I think this is the world’s longest river.” And all his men said in unison “The king speaks truly.” After this, the ignorant king believed even more firmly that Yelang was the world’s biggest country. Then one day, the Han Dynasty dispatched an envoy to Yelang, and en route they encountered the neighboring kingdom DianGuo, and the King of Dian asked the emissary: “If you pared the Han Dynasty and my Kingdom, which one would be bigger?” The emissary listened in astonishment, as he’d never have thought this small a country thought it could pare itself to the Han Dynasty. But he really never could have suspected that when he got to Yelang, the prideful and ignorant king who didn’t know that the kingdom he ruled was about the size of one Han county, would ask with an exaggerated opinion of his own worth, “Which is bigger: the Han Dynasty or my country?” 漢朝的時候,在西南方有個名叫夜郎的小國家,它雖然是一個獨立的國家,可是國土很小,百姓也少,物產(chǎn)更是少得可憐。但是由于鄰近地區(qū)以夜郎這個國家,從沒離開過國家的夜郎國國王就以為自己統(tǒng)治的國家是全天下的國家?! ∮幸惶欤估蓢鴩跖c部下巡視國境的時候,他指著前方問說:“這里哪個國家呀?”