成语英语翻译

成语英语翻译

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按图索骥 Looking for a steed with the aid of its picture

百发百中 A hundred shots, a hundred bull’s-eyes

班门弄斧 Showing off one’s proficiency with the axe before Lu Ban the master carpenter

杯弓蛇影 Mistaking the reflection of a bow for a snake

闭门造车 Building a cart behind closed doors

病入膏肓 The disease has attacked the vitals

草木皆兵 every bush and tree looks like an enemy

吹毛求疵 Blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect 打草惊蛇 Beating the grass and flushing out the snake

调虎离山 Luring the tiger out of the mountains

东施效颦 Aping the Beauty’s frown

对牛弹琴 Playing the lute to a cow

负荆请罪 Bringingthe birch and asking for flogging

功亏一篑 Running an enterprise for the lack of one basketful 故步自封 Content with staying where one is

含沙射影 spitting sand on a shadow-attacking by insinuation 狐假虎威 Basking in reflected glory

囫囵吞枣 Gulping down a whole date

画饼充饥 Allaying hunger with pictures of cakes

画龙点睛 Putting the finishing touch to the picture of a dragon 画蛇添足 Drawing a snake and adding feet

惊弓之鸟 Birds startled by the mere twang of a bowstring 精卫填海 Jingwei fills up the sea

井底之蛙 A frog in a well

刻舟求剑 Notching the boat to find the sword

空中楼阁 A castle in the air

滥竽充数 Passing oneself off as a member of the orchestra 狼狈为奸 A wolf working hand in glove with a jackal

老马识途 An old horse knows the way

梁上君子 A gentleman on the beam

临渴掘井 Not digging a well until one is thirsty

满城风雨 A storm enveloping the city

盲人摸象 Blind men touching an elephant

毛遂自荐 Mao Sui recommending himself

门庭若市 A courtyard as crowded as a marketplace

名落孙山 Failing to pass an examination

南辕北辙 Going south by driving the chariot north

怒发冲冠 So angry that one’s hair lifts up one’s hat

披荆斩棘 Breaking open a way through brambles and thorns 蚍蜉撼树 An ant trying to shake a big tree

破釜沉舟 Smashing the cauldrons and sinking the boats

破镜重圆 A broken mirror made whole again

骑虎难下 When one rides a tiger, it is hard to dismount

杞人忧天 The man of Qi who worried that the sky would fall 黔驴技穷 The Guizhou donkey has exhausted its tricks

日暮途穷 The day is waning and the road is ending

如火如荼 Like a raging fire

如鱼得水 To feel just like a fish in water

入木三分 To enter three-tenths of an inch into the timber 塞翁失马 The old man of frontier lost his horse

三顾茅庐 paying three visits to the cottage

三人成虎 repeat a lie enough times and it will be believed 丧家之犬 A homeless dog

杀鸡吓猴 Killing the chicken to frighten the monkeys

甚嚣尘上 Making a great clamor

势如破竹 Like splitting bamboo

世外桃源 A heaven of peace and happiness

手不释卷 Always with a book in hand

守株待兔 Sitting by a stump, waiting for a careless hare 蜀犬吠日 A Sichuan dog barks at the sun.

束之高阁 Putting it on a high shelf

水落石出 when the water ebbs, stones will appear

四面楚歌 songs of Chu on all sides

谈虎色变 Turn pale at the mention of a tiger

昙花一现 A flower that vanishes as soon as it appears