刻舟求剑英语

Chu crossing a man, his sword from the ship into the water. He hurried along in the ship engraved on a sign, saying: "here is my sword fell down." When the ship is in port, the man down the ship along engraved mark down to look for a sword. Ship has walked along (far away, and jian) in place will be accessible and forward. Use this way to look for a sword, not very confused?

有个楚国人乘船过江时，剑从船上掉进水里，他就在船帮上刻下一个记号，说：“这是我的剑掉下去的地方。”等船靠岸，他就从刻记号的地方跳进水里去找剑。船已走了很远，而剑却没走，这样去找剑，不是很糊涂吗？ There is a person boat crosses the of Chu, the sword fell into the water, he may in which a mark, said: “ this is my sword fall.” etc ship ashore, he carved from Mark dive to find a sword.Ship was gone too far, and the sword but no go, so go find swords, is not very confused?

Nick the boat to seek the sword

There was a man crossing the river in the state of Chu. His sword fell into the water from the boat. He hurriedly marked the place where the sword fell with a knife on the side of the boat and said, "this is where my sword fell."

When the boat arrived at its destination, the man of the state of Chu jumped into the water from the place where he marked to look for the sword. The ship has already sailed, but the sword hasn't moved. Isn't it very confused to look for the sword like this?

中文：

楚国有个渡江的人，他的剑从船中掉到水里。他急忙在船边上用刀在掉下剑的地方做了记号，说：“这是我的剑掉下去的地方。”船到目的地后停了下来，这个楚国人从他刻记号的地方跳到水里寻找剑。 船已经行驶了，但是剑没有移动，像这样寻找剑，不是很糊涂吗？

成语故事：

战国时，楚国有个人坐船渡江。船到江心，楚人一不小心，随身携带的一把宝剑滑落江中，他赶紧伸手去抓，可惜为时已晚，宝剑已经落入江中。船上的人对此感到非常惋惜。

但那楚人似乎胸有成竹，马上掏出一把小刀，在船舷上刻上个记号，并且对大家说：“这是宝剑落水的地方，所以我要刻上一个记号。”

大家都不理解他为何要这样做，也不再去问他。

船靠岸后，那楚人立即在船上刻有记号的地方下水，去捞取掉落的宝剑。楚人捞了半天，始终不见宝剑的影子。他觉得很奇怪，自言自语地说“我的宝剑不就是从这里掉下去的吗？我还在这里刻上了记号，现在怎么会找不到呢？”

听他这么一说，那些人纷纷大笑起来，说道：“船一直在行进，而你的宝剑却沉入了水底，不会随船移动，你又怎能找得到你的剑呢？”

Disregard the changing circumstances（刻舟求剑）