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- 中国成语典故中英对照:邯郸学步
- Learn to walk in Handan During the Warring States Period （475-221 BC）， Handan， the capital of the State of Zhao， was famous for people's walking style. They walked in vigorous elegant strides. P...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:丑女效颦
- Aping a Beauty Xi Shi, a famous beauty, had a pain in her bosom, so she had a frown on her face when she went out. An ugly girl who lived nearby saw her and thought she looked very beautifu...
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- 格林童话： 十二门徒(中)
- 在基督诞生前的三百年时，一位母亲生了十二个儿子。可她是那样的贫困潦倒，不知如何来养活这些儿子。她天天向上帝祈祷，请他施恩，让她所有的儿子能和那预言要降临人间的救世主在一起。当她生活越来越窘困时，她就把儿...
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- 格林童话:The Rose
- The RoseJacob and Wilhelm Grimm Once there was a poor woman who had two children. The youngest one had to go into the forest every day to fetch wood. Once when he had gone a very long way to fi...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:郑人买履
- Buying shoes A man of the state of Zheng wanted to buy a pair of shoes. He measured his foot and put the measurement on a chair. When he set out for the market he forgot to bring it along....
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:买椟还珠
- Getting the casket and returning the pearl A man from the state of Chu wanted to sell a precious pearl in the state of Zheng. He made a casket for the pearl out of the wood from a magnolia...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:掩耳盗铃
- 淮南子 Stuffing his ears for the purpose of stealing a bell In the Spring and Autumn period, a thief had stolen a bell and intended to carry it away on his back, but the bell was too bul...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:专心致志
- Single- hearted devotion Yi Qiu was known as the most famous expert at chess throughout the land. Once he gave lessons on chess to two men. One of them was completely absorbed in his teachi...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:杯弓蛇影
- Mistaking the reflection of a bow in the cup for a snake During the Han Dynasty(206BC-220AD), there was a county magistrate called Ying Bin. One summer day, he invited his secretary Du Xuan...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:投鼠忌器
- Do not burn you house to get rid of a mouse There is a story in "Hanshu" telling of a rich man, who being a lover of s and had a large collection. Among them was a rare vase made of jade. T...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:滥竽充数
- Be there just to make up the number During the Warring States Period (475-221BC), the King of the State of Qi was very fond of listening to yu ensembles. He often got together 300 yu player...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:塞翁失马
- The old man on the frontier lost his horse Once upon a time, there lived an old man on the northern frontier of China. One day, his horse disappeared. His neighbors came to comfort him. But...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:半途而废
- Give up halfway During the Warring States Period (475-221BC), there was a man called Yue Yangzi in State Yue. One day he saw a piece of gold on the road and picked it up. He took it home an...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:李代桃僵
- The plum tree sacrifices itself for the peach tree-Sacrifice oneself for another person This idiom comes from a old folk song. The last two stanzas go like this: One family has five brot...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:破镜重圆
- A broken mirror joined together During the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589), there lived a beautiful, intelligent princess name Lechang in the State Chen. She and her husband Xu De...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:惊弓之鸟
- A bird startled by the mere twang of a bow-string During the time of the Warring States (475-221 BC)， there lived a well-known archer named Geng Ying whose art in shooting was excelled by no...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:网开一面
- Give the wrong-doer a way out Beginning with Yu the Great, the Xia Dynasty had lasted about four hundred years before Jie became the supreme ruler. And that was in the 18th century BC. J...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:大公无私
- Perfectly impartial During the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), a very noble official caled Qi Huangyang lived in the State of Jin. One day, the king summoned him to court and asked,...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:大义灭亲
- Uphold justice at the cost of one's blood relation During the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC), there was many dukedoms under the king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. These dukedoms often...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:精卫填海
- The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea Once upon a time, the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan, legendary ruler of primitive China, went boating on the Eastern Sea. While she was enjoying h...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:一言为重
- What is Said Carries Weight In ancient times, there was a prime minister named Shang Yang in the State of Qin. He was held in high regard by the King. In the year 359 BC, he prepared for a...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:不合时宜
- Ignorance of the objective world In the State of Lu, there was a couple of husband and wife, the former being an expert shoemaker and the latter a skilled hand in wearing taffeta. One day a...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:兔死狐悲
- The fox is sad at the death of the hare Once a fox and a hare became friends with the purpose of defending themselves against their joint enemy, hunters, and swore to partake their fate for...
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:一技之长
- Proficiency in a particular line Gong sun Long , is a famous scholar lived in the State of Zhao during the Warring States Period (475-221BC). He had kept a circle skilled people around him....
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- 中国成语典故中英对照:入木三分
- To have an image of bamboo in one's mind Wang Xi-zhi is one of the most famous calligraphers during the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China. When he was very young, he practiced his art every day...
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