本书是一本中英对照版的成语故事双语读物，全书收集了许多我国古代典型的成语故事典故，这些故事，生动有趣，寓意深刻，从中你可以得到许多关于人生的启发，也可以获得许多英语知识。

一画

惊弓之鸟

A Bird Startle by the Mere Twang of a Bow—string

黄梁一梦

A Golden Millet Dream

掩耳盗铃

Plugging His Ears while Stealing a Bell

推心置腹

Treating People Heart to Heart

梁上君子

A Gentleman on the Beam

绰绰有余

More than Sufficient

唯利是图

Bent Solely on Profit

欲盖弥彰

The More One Tries to Hidethe More One Is Exposed

鸿鹄之志

High Aspirations

盛气凌人

Arrogantly Overbearingd

望梅止渴

Quenching Their Thirst by Thinking of Plums

望洋兴叹

Lamenting One’S Littleness before the Vast Ocean!

得心应手

Extremely sk1lfu|j

趾高气扬

Swollen with Arrogance

偃旗息鼓

Lowering the Banner and Muffling the Drums

十二画

惩前毖后

Learning from Past Mistakes to Avoid Future Ones

痛心疾首

With Bitter Hatred

强弩之末

An Arrow at the end of Its Flight

强词夺理

Making the Unreasonable Reasonable by Arguing

缘木求鱼

Climbing a Tree to Catoh Fish 

朝三暮四

Blow Hot and Cold

凿壁借光

Making a Hole in the Wall to Let Light in

趋炎附势

Playing up to Those in Power

道听途说

Things that You Get to Know by

Hearing of Them on the Road

揭竿而起

Raising the Standard of Revolt

集思广益

Drawing on Collective Wisdom and Absorbing All Usefull ideas

嗟来之食

Food Handed out in Contempt

十三画

滥竽充数

Passing Himself off as One of the Players in an Ensemble

愚公移山

Yu Gong Moved the Mountains 

塞翁失马

Sir Sai Lost His Horse 

鹏程万里

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