英文成語故事附翻譯（通用13篇）
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英文成語故事附翻譯 篇1
During the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), prince Zhou Xu of the State of Wei killed his brother and became the new emperor. Zhou Xu was a tyrant. He oppressed his people and indulged in wars of agGREssion. By launching wars, he tried to divert the peoples attention and reduce their discontent with him in order to consolidate his dictatorship.
The Duke of the State of Lu leant about Zhou Xus usurpation of state power and his ambitious plan, he asked a senior official, "What do you think about Zhou Xus move? "The official answered, "He indulges in wars , bringing his people much disaster. He wont get their support. And hes capricious, so few of his close friends follow him. He can never achieve his success. In addition, war is like fire. If one launches wars endlessly without restraint, hell eventually burn himself. "
Sure enough, the people of Wei with the help of the State of Chen overthrew Zhou Xu and killed him in less than a year.
Later, people use it to mean that those who do evil will finally ruin themselves.
春秋時期，衛(wèi)國的王子州吁殺死了他的哥哥衛(wèi)桓公，成為了衛(wèi)國的國君。州吁是個暴君，他壓迫百姓，到處侵略別的國家。他想利用戰(zhàn)爭來分散百姓的注意力，減少人們對他的不滿，鞏固他的專政。
魯國的君王知道州吁篡奪了王位，還想吞并其他國家，就問他手下的一名官員："你認(rèn)為州吁的目的能達(dá)到嗎?"那位官員說道："州吁到處打仗，給人民來了災(zāi)難。人民不會支持他。他這個人又反復(fù)無常，身邊沒有什么親信。他不可能實現(xiàn)自己的野心。而且，戰(zhàn)爭就象火。無休止地打仗，最后，火會燒到自己身上。 "
果然，不到一年，衛(wèi)國人民就在陳國的幫助下推翻了州吁的統(tǒng)治，并處死了他。
后來，人們用這個成語來比喻干害人的勾當(dāng)，最后受害的還是自己。
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇2
This idiom comes from Records of Three Kingdoms Kingdom of Wei Biography of Lu Yu. When Lu Yu, the minister of the State of Wei was young, his parents and brothers all died one after another, and he became an orphan. In such a difficult situation, he still studied very hard. Finally he became a talented person and served as a high officialof hisstate.Hewassouprightin performing his official duties that he was promoted to the minister of the Board of Civil Office, in charge of the officials appointments and removals.
Owing to the vacancy of Lu Yus original post, it had to fill up a new official for it. Although there were many officials to recommend some well-known people for the post, all were refused by Emperor Wen. He only let Lu Yu do it and also pointed out:"It depends on you whether we can find the right person for the important post. But we cant choose someone only with fame in stead of his real ability. You see, the fame is just like drawing cakes on the ground to allay hungry."
Then Lu expressed his idea:" You are right, YourMajesty, selections should depend on their real learning and abilities. But the real fame is still very important, such as self-possession and high moral character. So we should select people with both of them."
Now we use it to describe comforting oneself with unrealistic thoughts, without solving practical problemsand feeding on illusions.
此語出自《三國志魏志盧毓傳》。三國時代,魏國的大臣盧毓,自幼父母雙亡,兩位兄長又先后去世,他成了孤兒。但他刻苦學(xué)習(xí),終于成了很有才學(xué)的人,而且做了朝廷大臣。他為官清正、廉潔,因而連連提升,后被任命為吏部尚書,負(fù)責(zé)官吏的任免。
盧毓升任吏部尚書后,他原擔(dān)任的中書郎職務(wù)空缺,需要選拔人補(bǔ)上,當(dāng)時有很多大臣都推薦一些有名氣的人來擔(dān)任,但都被魏文帝拒絕了。魏文帝曹睿要盧毓選好這個官,并對他說:“這次選拔中書郎,能否選到合適的人,就看你了。千萬不要選那些只有虛名而沒有真才實學(xué)的人,虛名就像在地上畫的餅,是不能充饑的�！�
盧毓對此說出了他的意見:“陛下說得很對,選拔不能只看名氣,但名氣也能反映一定的實際情況,如果是修養(yǎng)、才學(xué)都好而有名氣就不應(yīng)該嫌棄,主要看他們是否有真才實學(xué)�！�
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇3
Imitating Another without Success and Losing What Used to Be OnesOwn Ability
Tradition has it that more than 2,oooyears ago,there lived a young man in the Shouling area of the State of Yan.As his name is not known ,we just call him Shouling young man for conveniences sake.
self confident He was at a loss as to how to behave all the time.
His family members advised him to overcome this shortcoming,but he thought they were fond of poking their noses into his business and were unwilling to provide him with tuition fee.His relatives and neighbours sneered at him,saying that he would never be able to learn anything.Asthe days went by,he even began to doubt whether he should walk the way he did,for he felt more and more that his walking gestures were too clumsy and awkward.
One day,he met some people on the road who werechattingand laughing.One of themsaid that people in Handan walked most gracefully.And thatwas just what he was most concerned about,so he hurreed towards themand wanted to make further inquiries.To his surprise,when these people saw him,they stalked off laughing.
He could not picture to himself in what way their walking gestures were graceful,no matter how hard he racked his parents one day.He went to Handanwhich was far away to learn how to walk.
As soon as he arrived in Handan,he was dazzled to find that everything was novel.He learned from the children there how to walk,because he thought that the childrens walking gestures were lively and pleasing to the eye.He learnd from the old people there how to walk,because he thought the old peoples walking gestures were steady .He learnd from the women there how to walk,because he thought the women swaying walking gestures were beautiful.That being the case with him ,in less than half a month he even forgot how to walk.As he had already used up his traveling expenses,he had to crawl back home.
This story come from the article"Autumn Water"in The Works of Xhuang Zi(Zhuang Zi was a famous ancient Chinese philosopher of about 300B.c.).Later the set phrase"initating another without success and losing what used to be ones own ability"is used to refer to acts of copying others mechanisally in disregard of specififc conditions.
相傳在兩千年前，燕國壽陵地方有一位少年，不知道姓啥叫啥，就叫他壽陵少年吧!
這位壽陵少年不愁吃不愁穿，論長相也算得上中等人材，可他就是缺乏自信心，經(jīng)常無緣無故地感到事事不如人，低人一等——衣服是人家的好，飯菜是人家的香，站相坐相也是人家高雅。他見什么學(xué)什么，學(xué)一樣丟一樣，雖然花樣翻新，卻始終不能做好一件事，不知道自己該是什么模樣。
家里的人勸他改一改這個毛病，他以為是家里人管得太多。親戚、鄰居們，說他是狗熊掰棒子，他也根本聽不進(jìn)去。日久天長，他竟懷疑自己該不該這樣走路，越看越覺得自己走路的姿勢太笨，太丑了。
有一天，他在路上碰到幾個人說說笑笑，只聽得有人說邯鄲人走路姿勢那叫美。他一聽，對上了心病，急忙走上前去，想打聽個明白。不料想，那幾個人看見他，一陣大笑之后揚(yáng)長而去。
邯鄲人走路的姿勢究竟怎樣美呢?他怎么也想象不出來。這成了他的心病。終于有一天，他瞞著家人，跑到遙遠(yuǎn)的邯鄲學(xué)走路去了。
一到邯鄲，他感到處處新鮮，簡直令人眼花繚亂。看到小孩走路，他覺得活潑、美，學(xué);看見老人走路，他覺得穩(wěn)重，學(xué);看到婦女走路，搖擺多姿，學(xué)。就這樣，不過半月光景，他連走路也不會了，路費也花光了，只好爬著回去了。
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇4
Once upon a time, there was a farmer.One day, while he was working in the fields, he saw a hare run into a tree stump accidentally and die of a broken neck.
The farmer took the hare home and cooked a delicious meal for himself.
That night he thought: "I neednt work so hard. All I have to do is wait every day by the stump to pick up the hare that runs into it.
So from then on he gave up farming, and stood by the tree stump waiting for the hare to come and run into it.
Butfromthen on, he never saw another hare run into the tree stump.
從前，有一個農(nóng)夫。一天，在他耕田的時候，忽然跑過來一只野兔，恰好碰在一個樹樁上，脖子折斷死了。
農(nóng)夫把兔子拾回家去，美美地吃了一頓兔肉。
當(dāng)晚，他就想：“我何必辛辛苦苦的種地呢？每天在樹樁旁等著撿撞倒的野兔就好了”。
于是他從此不再耕種，每天在樹樁旁等待野兔的到來。
但是，從那以后，他再沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)一只野兔撞在樹樁上。
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇5
In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king: I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring. When the king expressed doubt, Geng Lei pointed his bow at a wild goose flying in the sky, twanged the bowstring, and the goose fell to the ground. Geng Lei said, This goose has been hurt in the past. Hearing the twang of the bowstring, it assumed that it was doomed. So it simply gave up trying to live.
This idiom means that if one has been frightened in the past ones will may become paralysed in a similar situation.
戰(zhàn)國時期(公元前403―221年中國中原地區(qū)各諸侯國連年爭戰(zhàn)的時代)魏國有個名叫更羸的人。一天，他對國王說：“我只要拉開弓，空射一下，就能把天上的鳥射下來�！眹醪幌嘈拧８銓�(zhǔn)天上飛來的一只雁射去，果真那只雁聽到拉弦的聲音就掉了下來。國王感到很奇怪。更羸說，“那是一只受過傷的雁。它一聽到我拉開弓弦的聲響，就驚慌得支持不住，自然要掉下來了�！�
“驚弓之鳥”這個成語比喻受過驚恐之后，有一點動靜就特別害怕。
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇6
In the Western Jin Dynasty there were two young men.One of them was Zu Ti and the other was Liu Kun.Both of them were men of ideals and integrity who were chivalrous and of a sanguine disposition.They not only wrote excellent articles but also were fond of practising martial arts to keep fit， in order to render meritorious service to the country.Both of them were chief clerks responsible for document administration in Luoyang.Although in appearance the Jin Dynasty had jurisdiction of the Central Plains comprising the middle and lower reaches of the Haunch and threatened by foreign invasion.Zu Ti and Liu Kun often talked about the country’s situation till late into the night，and each time they talking very excitedly again.Liu Kun fell asleep without knowing it，but Zu Ti was too excited to fall asleep.“ Cock-a-doodle-doo，”came the crow of rooster in the wasteland.Zu Ti jumped up and kicked Liu Kun awake：“Listen.How inspiring the rooster‘s crow is.Let’s get up and practised on a slope.From then on，they kept practising sword playing vigorously and energetically in the wasteland every day when they heard the first crow in the morning.Deeply moved by Zu Ti‘s patriotic passion，Liu Kun was determined to devote himself to his homeland.Once he wrote to his family：”At the time when the country is in dire peril，I am resolved to dedicate myselt to the service of my country.I often fear that I might lag behind Zu Ti in rendering service to the country，and，in fact，I am behind him.......“ The words” sleep with my head pillowed on a spear，waiting for the day to break“vividly described Liu Kun’s determination to dedicate himself to the service of the country and to fight the enemy at any time.Later，this set phrase is used to mean maintaining sharp vigilance and being ready to fight at any time.”
西晉人祖逖和劉琨，都是性格開朗、仗義好俠的志士。年輕時不但文章寫得好，而且都喜歡練武健身，決心報效祖國。當(dāng)時，晉朝表面上還管轄著中原大地，但實際上已是內(nèi)憂外患，風(fēng)雨飄搖了。祖逖和劉琨一談起國家局勢，總是慷慨萬分，常常聊到深夜。
一天，祖逖又和劉琨談得十分興奮，劉琨不知什么時候睡著了，祖逖卻久久沉浸在談話的興奮之中，不能入睡。“喔，喔，喔－－”荒原上的雄雞叫了起來，祖逖一躍而起，踢醒了劉琨：“聽，這雄雞啼鳴多么振奮人心呀，快起來練劍吧！”于是，兩人操起劍來，在高坡上對舞。從此，他倆每天清早聽到頭一聲鳴叫，一定來到荒原上抖擻神練起劍來。
劉琨被祖逖的愛國熱情深深感動，決心獻(xiàn)身于祖。一次他給家人的信中寫道：“在國家危難時刻，我經(jīng)�！砀甏ㄕ碇魉X一直到天明），立志報國，常擔(dān)心落在祖逖后邊，不想他到底走到我的前頭了！……”
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇7
In AD 383, the king of Former Qin (秦朝), Fu Jian (fú jiān 苻堅), led a huge army to attack Eastern Jin. 公元383年，秦王苻堅率領(lǐng)步兵、騎兵90萬，攻打江南的晉朝。
After losing the first round of fighting, Fu Jian looked down from a city wall, and was terrified when he saw the formidable battle array of the Eastern Jin army.在一輪戰(zhàn)敗后，苻堅從城墻俯視周遭，當(dāng)他看到勢不可破的東晉部隊，他感到很害怕。
And then looking at the mountains around, he mistook the grass and trees for enemy soldiers. 此時，苻堅在壽春城上望見晉軍隊伍嚴(yán)整，士氣高昂，再北望八公山，只見山上一草一木都像晉軍的士兵一樣，于是更加恐慌。
As a result, when the nervous Fu Jian led his army into battle, it suffered a crushing defeat.后來苻堅全軍覆沒，帶著少數(shù)殘余的'隊伍逃回去了。
This idiom describes how one can defeat oneself by imaging difficulties.這個成語后來形容人在極度驚恐時，疑神疑鬼的心理狀態(tài)。
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇8
In the reign of Emperor the Second of the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.), the prime minister Zhao Gao, obsessed with ambitions, was planning to usurp the throne day and night. But he did not know how many of the ministers in the court were allowed to be ordered about by him and how many of them were his opponents. So he thought out a way to test how high his prestige among the ministers was and also to find out who dared to oppose him.
One day when court was held, Zhao Gao let someone bring a stag to the court and, with a broad smile on his face, he said to Emperor the Second of the Qin Dynasty:"Your Majesty, here is a fine horse Im presenting to you." Looking at the animal, Emperor the Second thought that it was obviously a stag and that it couldnt be a horse. So he said smilingly to Zhao Gao:"Mister Prime Minister, you are wrong. This is a stay. Why do you say it is a horse?" Remaining calm, Zhao Gao said:"Will your Majesty please see more clearly? This really is a horse that covers a thousand li a day." Filled with suspicion, Emperor the Second looked at the stag again and said:"How can the antlers be grown on the head of a horse?" Turning around and pointing his finger at the ministers, Zhao Gao said in a loud voice:"if our Majesty do not believe me, you can ask the ministers."
The nonsense of Zhao Gao made the ministers totally at a lose, and they whispered to themselves: What tricks was Zhao Gao playing? Was it not obvious whether it was a stag or a horse? But when they saw the sinister smile on Zhao Gaos face and his two rolling eyes which were gazing at each of them, they suddenly understood his evil intentions.
Some of the ministers who were timid and yet had a sense of right eousness did not dare to say anything, because to tell lies would make their conscience uneasy and to tell the truth would mean that they would be persecuted by Zhao Gao later. Some ministers with a sense of justice persisted that it was a stag and not a horse. There were still some crafty and fawning ministers who followed Zhao Gao closely in ordinary times. They immediately voiced their support to Zhao Gao, saying to the emperor:"This really in a horse that covers a thousand li a day."
After the event, Zhao Gao punished by various means those ministers with a sense of justice who were not obedient to him, even with whole families of some of those ministers executed.
This story appears in "The Life of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty" in The Historical Records written by Sima Qian. From this story people have derived the set phrase "calling a stag a horse" to mean deliberately misrepresenting some thing and misleading the public.
秦二世時，丞相趙高野心勃勃，日夜盤算著要篡奪皇位�？沙写蟪加卸嗌偃四苈犓麛[布，有多少人反對他，他心中沒底。于是，他想了一個辦法，準(zhǔn)備試一試自己的威信，同時也可以摸清敢于反對他的人。
一天上朝時，趙高讓人牽來一只鹿，滿臉堆笑地對秦二世說：“陛下，我獻(xiàn)給您一匹好馬。”秦二世一看，心想：這哪里是馬，這分明是一只鹿嘛！便笑著對趙高說：“丞相搞錯了，這里一只鹿，你怎么說是馬呢？”趙高面不改色心不跳地說：“請陛下看清楚，這的確是一匹千里馬�！鼻囟烙挚戳丝茨侵宦�，將信將疑地說：“馬的頭上怎么會長角呢？”趙高一轉(zhuǎn)身，用手指著眾大臣，大聲說：“陛下如果不信我的話，可以問問眾位大臣�！�
大臣們都被趙高的一派胡言搞得不知所措，私下里嘀咕：這個趙高搞什么名堂？是鹿是馬這不是明擺著嗎！當(dāng)看到趙高臉上露出陰險的笑容，兩只眼睛骨碌碌輪流地盯著趙高臉上露出陰險的笑容，兩只眼睛骨碌碌輪流地盯著每個人的時候，大臣們忽然明白了他的用意。
一些膽小又有正義感的人都低下頭，不敢說話，因為說假話，對不起自己的良心，說真話又怕日后被趙高所害。有些正直的人，堅持認(rèn)為是說明書而不是馬。還有一些平時就緊跟趙高的奸佞之人立刻表示擁護(hù)趙高的說法，對皇上說，“這確是一匹千里馬！”
事后，趙高通過各種手段把那些不順從自己的正直大臣紛紛治罪，甚至滿門抄斬。
故事出自《史記秦始皇本紀(jì)》。成語“指鹿為馬”比喻故意顛倒是非，混淆黑白。
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇9
Once a man wanted to go to the south, but his carriage was heading north. A passer-by asked him:"If you are going to south, why is your chariot heading north?" The ma answered, "My horse is good at running, My driver is highly skilled at driving a carriage, ad I have enough money."The man didint consider that the direction might be wrong; the better his conditions were, ther further he was away from his destination.
The idiom derived froim this story indicates that ones action was the opposite effect to ones intention.
從前有一個人，從魏國到楚國去。他帶上很多的盤纏，雇了上好的車，駕上駿馬，請了駕車技術(shù)精湛的車夫，就上路了。楚國在魏國的南面，可這個人不問青紅皂白讓駕車人趕著馬車一直向北走去。
路上有人問他的車是要往哪兒去，他大聲回答說：“去楚國!”路人告訴他說：“到楚國去應(yīng)往南方走，你這是在往北走，方向不對�！蹦侨藵M不在乎地說：“沒關(guān)系，我的馬快著呢!”路人替他著急，拉住他的馬，阻止他說：“方向錯了，你的馬再快，也到不了楚國呀!”那人依然毫不醒悟地說：“不要緊，我?guī)У穆焚M多著呢!”路人極力勸阻他說：“雖說你路費多，可是你走的不是那個方向，你路費多也只能白花呀!”那個一心只想著要到楚國去的人有些不耐煩地說：“這有什么難的，我的車夫趕車的本領(lǐng)高著呢!”路人無奈，只好松開了拉住車把子的手，眼睜睜看著那個盲目上路的魏人走了。
那個魏國人，不聽別人的指點勸告，仗著自己的馬快、錢多、車夫好等優(yōu)越條件，朝著相反方向一意孤行。那么，他條件越好，他就只會離要去的地方越遠(yuǎn)，因為他的大方向錯了。
這個故事告訴我們，無論做什么事，都要首先看準(zhǔn)方向，才能充分發(fā)揮自己的有利條件;如果方向錯了，那么有利條件只會起到相反的作用。
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇10
At the end of the Qin Dynasty(221-206 B.C.) the State of Chu and the State of Han fought for control for the country. Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, was besieged（包圍） at a place called Gaixia by the Han army led by Liu Bang. Xiang Yu was in a desperate situation, with little food and only a few soliders. At night, the surrounding Han troops started to sing Chu folk songs. Xiang Yu was very surprised at this, and said:"Has Liu Bang occupied the whole of Chu? How can he have drafted so many Chu people into his army?" Then he fled together with the remainder of his forces.
This idiom is used metaphorically to mean to be in a helpless and critical situation, surrounded by the enemy on all sides.
項羽和劉邦原來約定以鴻溝（在今河南榮縣境賈魯河）東西邊作為界限，互不侵犯。后來劉邦聽從張良和陳平的規(guī)勸，覺得應(yīng)該趁項羽衰弱的時候消滅他，就又和韓信、彭越、劉賈會合兵力追擊正在向東開往彭城（即今江蘇徐州）的項羽部隊。終于布置了幾層兵力，把項羽緊緊圍在垓下（在今安徽靈璧縣東南）。這時，項羽手下的兵士已經(jīng)很少，糧食又沒有了。夜里聽見四面圍住他的軍隊都唱起楚地的民歌，不禁非常吃驚地說：“劉邦已經(jīng)得到了楚地了嗎？為什么他的部隊里面楚人這么多呢？”說看，心里已喪失了斗志，便從床上爬起來，在營帳里面喝酒，并和他最寵愛的妃子虞姬一同唱歌。唱完，直掉眼淚，在一旁的人也非常難過，都覺得抬不起頭來。虞姬自刎于項羽的馬前，項羽英雄末路，帶了僅剩兵卒至烏江，最終自刎于江邊。
以后人們就用“四面楚歌”這個詞，形容人們遭受各方面攻擊或逼迫，而陷于孤立窘迫的境地。凡是陷于此種境地者，其命運(yùn)往往是很悲慘的。例如某人因經(jīng)常與壞人為伍，不事生產(chǎn)，游手好閑，但后來卻被那些壞人逼迫得無以為生，而求助于別人時，別人又因他平日行為太壞，絕不同情理睬，這人所處的境地便是“四面楚歌”。
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇11
A farmer in the state of Song once got a piece of stone with jade init.宋國人有個農(nóng)夫得到一塊含寶玉的石頭后，將它獻(xiàn)給了相國子罕。
He presented this stone to Prime Minister Zi Han. But Zi Han refused toaccept it. The farmer explained, “It looks like just a stone, butthere is jade inside. It actually is a piece of treasure and suitable forhonorable men like you, not for us common people.”子罕拒絕接受這塊石頭，農(nóng)夫解釋說：“表面上它是塊石頭，但里面含有寶玉，是個寶物，適合您這樣的貴人使用，我們普通百姓用它就不合適了。”
“I know there is jade inside,” Zi Han said,” but I disagree with you.I think to have the virtue of declining things that do not belongto oneself is the real treasure. ”子罕說：“我知道里面是寶玉。但我的觀點和你不同，我認(rèn)為具有不接受不應(yīng)得的東西的品德才是真正的寶玉�！�
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇12
In the Jin Dynasty (265-420) there was a famous writer whose name was Zuo Si who, however, was very naughty and did not like to study when he was a small kid.His father often got angry, and yet young Zuo Si was as naughty as ever and would not study hard.
One day, Zuo Sis father was chatting with his friends. his friends envied him his clever and loverly son. Hearing this, Zuo sis father sighed, "Please do not mention him. My son Zuo si does not study as well as I did when I was young, although I did not study well enough myself. It appears that he is actually a good-for-nothing." So saying, he looked disappointed. All this was witnessed by young Zuo Si. He felt very sad, feeling intensely that he would not be able to have a bright future if he did not study hard. So he was determined to study assiduously from then on.
Day after day and year after year, Zuo Si gradually grew up. Because of his unremitting afforts in hard study, he became an erudite scholar and wrote very excellent essays. The "Ode to the Capital of the State of Qi", which took him one year to write, showed his brilliant literary talent and laid the foundation for his becoming an outstanding writer. then he planned to write an "Ode to the Capitals of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu Han and Wu" with the local conditions and customs as well as the produce of the three capitals as its content. In order to achieve the desired effect in content, structure and language, he applied himself to research work with great concentration, and was so absorbed in creative writing as to forget food and sleep. It took him ten whole years to finish the writing of "Ode to the Capitals of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu Han and Wu", a literary masterpiece.
The "Ode to the Capitals of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu Han and Wu" was well received by the broad masses of readers after it made its appearance to the public, and people considered it as superbly written as the "Ode to the Western Capital (Changan) and to the Eastern Capital (Luoyang)" written by Ban Gu (32-92) and the "Ode to the Western Capital and to the Eastern Capital" written by Zhang Heng of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D.220). As the art of printing had not been invented at that time, people who were fond of this "Ode" had to make handwritten copies of it themselves. As there were so many people who vied with each other in making handwritten copies, the supply of writing paper fell short of the demand in Luoyang went up greatly.
This story comes from "The life of Zuo Si" in the book "Literary Field" of The History of the Jin Dynasty. Based on this story, people have coined the set phrase "the price of writing paper went up greatly", meaning the overwhelming popularity of a new work causes shortage of printing paper, to show how popular an outstanding piece of literary work is.
晉代文學(xué)家左思，小時候是個非常頑皮、不愛讀書的孩子。父親經(jīng)常為這事發(fā)脾氣，可是小左思仍然淘氣得很，不肯好好學(xué)習(xí)。
有一天，左思的父親與朋友們聊天，朋友們羨慕他有個聰明可愛的兒子。左思的父親嘆口氣說：“快別提他了，小兒左思的學(xué)習(xí)，還不如我小時候，看來沒有多大的出息了。”說著，臉上流露出失望的神色。這一切都被小左思看到聽到了，他非常難過，覺得自己不好好念書確實很沒出息。于是，暗暗下定決心，一定要刻苦學(xué)習(xí)。
日復(fù)一日，年復(fù)一年，左思漸漸長大了，由于他堅持不懈地發(fā)奮讀書，終于成為一位學(xué)識淵博的人，文章也寫得非常好。他用一年的時間寫成了《齊都賦》，顯示出他在文學(xué)方面的才華，為他成為杰出的文學(xué)家奠定了基礎(chǔ)。這以后他又計劃以三國時魏、蜀、吳首都的風(fēng)土、人情、物產(chǎn)為內(nèi)容，撰寫《三都賦》。為了在內(nèi)容、結(jié)構(gòu)、語言諸方面都達(dá)到一定水平，他潛心研究，精心撰寫，廢寢忘食，用了整整十年，文學(xué)巨著《三都賦》終于寫成了。
《三都賦》受到諒也評，人們把它和漢代文學(xué)杰作《兩都賦》相比。由于當(dāng)時還沒有發(fā)明印刷術(shù)，喜愛《三都賦》的人只能爭相抄閱，因為抄寫的人太多，京城洛陽的紙張供不應(yīng)求，一時間全城紙價大幅度上升。
英文成語故事附翻譯 篇13
A peasant in the state of Song led an extremely hard life for he was destitute, depending on worn sackcloth to defense the chill of winter.宋國的一個農(nóng)民，因家境貧寒，生活極為清苦，全靠一件爛麻衣抵御冬天的嚴(yán)寒。
After the spring arrived, the peasant ploughed in the field. When he got tired and rested on the ridge of the field he felt the sunshine to be warmer and more comfortable than the worn sackcloth.春天來后，農(nóng)夫在田里耕地，累了坐在田頭休息時，覺得太陽暖融融的，舒服而愜意，遠(yuǎn)比爛麻衣溫暖。
He knew neither spacious nor comfortable houses to live in, nor silk, cotton and fur clothes to keep warm. He was very excited at his discovery, and he said to his wife, “Sun bath is so pleasant, but people do not know it. I will present this secret to the king, and he is sure to bestow many presents to me to reward my loyalty.”這農(nóng)民不知道人間寬敞舒適的房子都可居住，也不清楚綿綢和皮衣可以保暖。農(nóng)民為自己的這一新發(fā)現(xiàn)激動不已，興奮地對妻子說：“曬太陽是如此令人愉快，而人們卻還不知道。我要把這一秘密獻(xiàn)給國王，國王為了表彰我的忠誠，一定會給我很多賞賜物品�！�
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