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1、文本为Word版本，下载可任意编辑英语成语故事集锦（5篇） 成语故事包涵着我国从古代到现在的大道理大智慧，通过描写生活的一些简单的事，让我们感觉到有趣从而明白需要知道的，成语故事是我国历史的一部分，成语是历史的积淀，每一个成语的背后都有一个含义深远的故事，是我国几千年以来人民智慧的结晶。下面是整理分享的英语成语故事，欢迎阅读与借鉴，希望能够为大家带来帮助，同时也希望给你们带来一些参考的作用，如果喜欢就请继续关注的后续更新吧！ 1.英语成语故事 This idiom comes from Records of Three Kingdoms Kingdom of Wei Biography of

2、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 perfor

3、ming 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 peop

4、le 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 gr

5、ound 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 descr

6、ibe comforting oneself with unrealistic thoughts, without solving practical problemsand feeding on illusions.此语出自三国志魏志卢毓传。三国时代,魏国的大臣卢毓,自幼父母双亡,两位兄长又先后去世,他成了孤儿。但他刻苦学习,终于成了很有才学的人,而且做了朝廷大臣。他为官清正、廉洁,因而连连提升,后被任命为吏部尚书,负责官吏的任免。卢毓升任吏部尚书后,他原担任的中书郎职务空缺,需要选拔人补上,当时有很多大臣都推荐一些有名气的人来担任,但都被魏文帝拒绝了。魏文帝曹睿要卢毓选好这个官,并对他说:

7、“这次选拔中书郎,能否选到合适的人,就看你了。千万不要选那些只有虚名而没有真才实学的人,虚名就像在地上画的饼,是不能充饥的。”卢毓对此说出了他的意见:“陛下说得很对,选拔不能只看名气,但名气也能反映一定的实际情况,如果是修养、才学都好而有名气就不应该嫌弃,主要看他们是否有真才实学。” 2.英语成语故事 Imitating Another without Success and Losing What Used to Be OnesOwn AbilityTradition has it that more than 2,oooyears ago,there lived a young man i

8、n 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

9、 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 w

10、ere 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 peop

11、le 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 n

12、ovel.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,b

13、ecause 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 articleAutumn Waterin The Works of Xhuang Zi(Zhua

14、ng Zi was a famous ancient Chinese philosopher of about 300B.c.).Later the set phraseinitating another without success and losing what used to be ones own abilityis used to refer to acts of copying others mechanisally in disregard of specififc conditions.相传在两千年前，燕国寿陵地方有一位少年，不知道姓啥叫啥，就叫他寿陵少年吧!这位寿陵少年不愁

15、吃不愁穿，论长相也算得上中等人材，可他就是缺乏自信心，经常无缘无故地感到事事不如人，低人一等衣服是人家的好，饭菜是人家的香，站相坐相也是人家高雅。他见什么学什么，学一样丢一样，虽然花样翻新，却始终不能做好一件事，不知道自己该是什么模样。家里的人劝他改一改这个毛病，他以为是家里人管得太多。亲戚、邻居们，说他是狗熊掰棒子，他也根本听不进去。日久天长，他竟怀疑自己该不该这样走路，越看越觉得自己走路的姿势太笨，太丑了。有一天，他在路上碰到几个人说说笑笑，只听得有人说邯郸人走路姿势那叫美。他一听，对上了心病，急忙走上前去，想打听个明白。不料想，那几个人看见他，一阵大笑之后扬长而去。邯郸人走路的姿势究竟怎

16、样美呢?他怎么也想象不出来。这成了他的心病。终于有一天，他瞒着家人，跑到遥远的邯郸学走路去了。一到邯郸，他感到处处新鲜，简直令人眼花缭乱。看到小孩走路，他觉得活泼、美，学;看见老人走路，他觉得稳重，学;看到妇女走路，摇摆多姿，学。就这样，不过半月光景，他连走路也不会了，路费也花光了，只好爬着回去了。 3.英语成语故事 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 o

17、f 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 ha

18、re to come and run into it.Butfromthen on, he never saw another hare run into the tree stump.从前，有一个农夫。一天，在他耕田的时候，忽然跑过来一只野兔，恰好碰在一个树桩上，脖子折断死了。农夫把兔子拾回家去，美美地吃了一顿兔肉。当晚，他就想：“我何必辛辛苦苦的种地呢？每天在树桩旁等着捡撞倒的野兔就好了”。于是他从此不再耕种，每天在树桩旁等待野兔的到来。但是，从那以后，他再没有发现一只野兔撞在树桩上。 4.英语成语故事 In the Warring States Period, there was a m

19、an 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 h

20、as 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.战国时期(公元前403221年中国中原地区各诸侯国连年争战的时代)魏国有个名叫更羸的人。一天，他对国王说：“我只

21、要拉开弓，空射一下，就能把天上的鸟射下来。”国王不相信。更羸便对准天上飞来的一只雁射去，果真那只雁听到拉弦的声音就掉了下来。国王感到很奇怪。更羸说，“那是一只受过伤的雁。它一听到我拉开弓弦的声响，就惊慌得支持不住，自然要掉下来了。”“惊弓之鸟”这个成语比喻受过惊恐之后，有一点动静就特别害怕。 5.英语成语故事 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 usur

22、p 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 w

23、hen 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

24、 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 th

25、e 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

26、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 m

27、inisters 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 an

28、d 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

29、 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 call

30、ing a stag a horse to mean deliberately misrepresenting some thing and misleading the public.秦二世时，丞相赵高野心勃勃，日夜盘算着要篡夺皇位。可朝中大臣有多少人能听他摆布，有多少人反对他，他心中没底。于是，他想了一个办法，准备试一试自己的威信，同时也可以摸清敢于反对他的人。一天上朝时，赵高让人牵来一只鹿，满脸堆笑地对秦二世说：“陛下，我献给您一匹好马。”秦二世一看，心想：这哪里是马，这分明是一只鹿嘛！便笑着对赵高说：“丞相搞错了，这里一只鹿，你怎么说是马呢？”赵高面不改色心不跳地说：“请陛下看清楚，这

31、的确是一匹千里马。”秦二世又看了看那只鹿，将信将疑地说：“马的头上怎么会长角呢？”赵高一转身，用手指着众大臣，大声说：“陛下如果不信我的话，可以问问众位大臣。”大臣们都被赵高的一派胡言搞得不知所措，私下里嘀咕：这个赵高搞什么名堂？是鹿是马这不是明摆着吗！当看到赵高脸上露出阴险的笑容，两只眼睛骨碌碌轮流地盯着赵高脸上露出阴险的笑容，两只眼睛骨碌碌轮流地盯着每个人的时候，大臣们忽然明白了他的用意。一些胆小又有正义感的人都低下头，不敢说话，因为说假话，对不起自己的良心，说真话又怕日后被赵高所害。有些正直的人，坚持认为是说明书而不是马。还有一些平时就紧跟赵高的*佞之人立刻表示拥护赵高的说法，对皇上说，“这确是一匹千里马！”事后，赵高通过各种手段把那些不顺从自己的正直大臣纷纷治罪，甚至满门抄斩。故事出自史记秦始皇本纪。成语“指鹿为马”比喻故意颠倒是非，混淆黑白。第 13 页 共 13 页