To move all of the soil and stone from east Taiwan's rivers elsewhere will unfortunately take not only as much patience as the old fool, but the old man only wanted to move one mountain, and if you want to move all the sediment from Hualien's waters, "I'm afraid you'd have to do it for 90 % of the 27 rivers and streams," warns Chao Kuo-chao.
愚公不過想搬動一座山，但若要疏濬花蓮河川的砂石，「恐怕廿七條大小河川當中，有百分之九十不能倖免」，趙國昭說。