越 (Yuè): meaning and stroke order

越 in our stories

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• 鲧的办法是“堵”：哪里有水，就在哪里筑起高高的土墙。可是水越堵越高，最后冲垮了所有的墙。

  Gǔn de bànfǎ shì dǔ nǎli yǒu shuǐ jiù zài nǎli zhù qǐ gāogāo de tǔqiáng kěshì shuǐ yuè dǔ yuè gāo zuìhòu chōng kuǎ le suǒyǒu de qiáng

  Gun's method was to block: wherever there was water, he built high earth walls. But the more he blocked it, the higher the water rose, until it burst through every wall.

  From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

• 他坐在机场的咖啡店里，越想越难过，觉得自己的运气差到了极点。

  tā zuò zài jīchǎng de kāfēidiàn lǐ yuè xiǎng yuè nánguò juéde zìjǐ de yùnqi chà dào le jídiǎn

  He sat in the airport cafe, feeling worse the more he thought about it, convinced his luck had hit rock bottom.

  From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6

• 唐僧越听越生气，写下一封贬书，把悟空赶回了花果山。

  Táng Sēng yuè tīng yuè shēngqì xiě xià yì fēng biǎnshū bǎ Wùkōng gǎn huí le Huāguǒ Shān

  The more Tang Seng listened, the angrier he became. He wrote a letter of dismissal and drove Wukong back to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit.

  From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6