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otherMencius , who lived from 372 to 289 ., is regarded as the greatest sage(圣人)next only to Confucius in Chinese are many stories about this great 39。s father died mother did all she could to make young Mencius to study moved the family three times in order that her son would be interested in she moved because her neighbor was a Mencius liked to watch him work and imitate the family settled down in the neighborhood of a teacher was a learned man , and the sound of reading could be heard every young Mencius began to imitate the teacher and liked to read Mencius wasn39。t working real mother was day his mother was weaving cotton cloth at home, when she saw her son stop reading his took up a knife to cut the cloth on the told her son that if he didn39。t work hard at his lessons, his future would be destroyed like the is said that from then on Mencius buried himself in books and later became one of the greatest thinkers in the ,the story about the good mother is told and retold throughout the l. Mencius(人名)孟子2.BC= Before Christ公元前3.is regarded as被認(rèn)為4.the greatest sage next only to Confucius僅次于孔子的最偉大的圣人5.settle down定居,住下6.a(chǎn) leaned man一個(gè)有(高深)學(xué)問的人7.1oom織布機(jī)8.buried himself in埋頭于點(diǎn)評(píng)孟母三次遷居目的是為其子營造良好的學(xué)習(xí)環(huán)境,后來又用“斷織”,勉勵(lì)兒子學(xué)習(xí)成材。