Most of the territory of the state of Yue was water hand, so they used boats instead of chariots.

　　A person of Yue came across a useless chariot with rotten spokes1 and wheels. He actually shipped this chariot home, and showed off his wide experience and knowledge.

　　Those who came to see the chariot believed what be said and thought that was what a chariot was really like. Then they began to copy it and made many chariots. When the people of the state of Jin pointed2 out to them that their chariots were not up to the standards, they thought that the people of Jin were just looking down up them and ignored them.

　　Later when the enemy army invaded them, the chariots of Yue were all broken when first brought to the battlefield and were useless. Thus, the state of Yue was hadly defeated.

　　越國地處水鄉(xiāng)，不用車而是用船。

　　一個越國人在晉國撿到一倆輻條腐朽、車輪慘敗，已經(jīng)沒有用的破車后，居然用船把車弄回家中，并大肆賣弄自己的廣見博識。

　　前來看車的人相信了他的話，認(rèn)為車原本就是這個樣子，于是爭著仿效制造，當(dāng)晉國人指出越國人的車不合規(guī)范時，越國人卻以為是在歧視他們，根本不加理會。

　　等到敵軍入侵，越人的戰(zhàn)車剛剛上陣，就殘破得不堪使用，結(jié)果被敵人打得大敗。