《凿壁偷光匡衡》讲述了匡衡勤奋学习,*后学有所成的故事。匡衡是西汉时期的名士,他对《诗经》的研究无可超越,以至于当时没有学者敢在他面前班门弄斧。他的成就和他小时候的努力是分不开的。他小时候家里很穷,买不起蜡烛,他就去邻居家借蜡烛读书,但遭到了邻人的嘲讽,说穷人读书也没用。匡衡就暗自发誓要好好争气,有一番作为。他无意中发现邻居家的光亮可以透过家里墙壁上的裂缝照进来,于是就每晚借着墙缝的光阅读。他还自荐去富人家打工,不要薪酬,只要富人让他看书就可以。凭借着孜孜不倦的努力,他最终成为了非常有学问的人,官至宰相。
Kuang Heng was a great scholar in the Western Han Dynasty. His study for the Poetry was peerless thus nobody dared to talk about that in front of him. His achievement was owned to his hard work when he was a child. His family was to poor to afford the candles. So he tried to borrow candles from his neighbor, only got sarcastic remarks saying there is no use for poor people to read. Thus Kuang Heng vowed to himself that he would be success one day. Once he found the candle light from his neighbors could go through the cracks of his walls, so he depended on the light to read everyday. Later he asked a rich man for a work without pay on the condition to read free. With assiduous work, he finally became a scholar and the minister of the state.