匡衡出生在一个贫穷的家庭。他非常喜欢看书。他白天要工作，所以只能在晚上看书。但他太穷了，买不起蜡烛。

有一天，他发现邻居家有蜡烛，但光线照不到他的房间。于是，他在墙上挖了一个小洞，这样他就可以利用光线看书了。从那天起，他每天晚上都看书，直到熄灯。

然而，他看完了所有的书，却没有书给他看了。后来，他去了一个富人家，为他无偿工作。富人问他： "你为什么不要钱？" 匡衡说： "因为我只想借你的书看" 富人同意了。匡衡把书一本一本地读。

最后，他成了一名大学者。

Kuang Heng was born in a poor family. He liked reading books very much. He needed to work at daytime, so he had to read books during night. But he was too poor to buy a candle. 

One day, he found his neighbour had candles, but the light couldn’t go through his room. So he dug a small hole on the wall so that he could use the light to read books. From that day, he read books every night until the light went out. 

However, he finished reading all his books and there were no books for him to read. Then he went to a rich man’s house and worked for him without payment. The rich man asked: “ Why don’t you want the money?” Kuang Heng said: “ Because I only want to borrow your books.” The rich man agreed. Kuang Heng read the books one by one. 

Finally, he became a great scholar.