学习汉语的外国学生，当他们初步掌握了汉语的语音、词汇、语法和文字时，很想进一步提高自己的汉语水平。怎样提高呢?尹斌庸编著刘峰、刘耕涛编绘的《成语101/博古通今学汉语丛书》精选汉语中最有价值的、常用的、表现力强的成语、谚语、歇后语和典故各10l则。每则均附英文释义，每则配一幅精美插图，另有一些难解词语中英文注释。

1．按图索骥

 Looking for a fine steed with the aid of its picture

2．百发百中

 A hundred shots，a hundred bullseyes

3．班门弄斧

 Showing off one’S proficiency with the axe before Lu

 Ban the master carpenter

4．杯弓蛇影

 Mistaking the reflection of a bow for a snake

5．闭门造车

 Building a cart behind closed doors

6．病人膏肓

 The disease has aRacked the vital organs

7．草木皆兵

 Every bush and tree looks like an enemy

8．吹毛求疵

 Blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defects

9．打草惊蛇

 Beating the grass and flushing out the snake

10．调虎离山

 Luring the tiger out of the mountains

11．东施效颦

 Aping the beauty’S frown

12．对牛弹琴

 Playing the lute to a cow

13．负荆请罪

 Bringing the birch and asking for a flogging

14．功亏一篑

 Ruining an enterprise for the lack of one basket

1 5．故步自封

 Content with staying where one is

16．含沙射影

 Spitting sand on a shadow--attacking someone by

 insinuation

17．狐假虎威

 Basking in reflected glory

18．囫囵吞枣

 Gulping down a whole date

19．画饼充饥

 Allaying hunger with pictures of cakes

20．画龙点睛

 Putting the finishing touches on a picture of a dragon

21．画蛇添足

 Drawing a snake and adding feet

22．惊弓之鸟

 Birds startled by the mere twang of a bowstring

23．精卫填海”

 Jingwei fills up the sea

24．井底之蛙

 Afroginawell

25．刻舟求剑

 Notching the boat to find the sword

26．空中楼阁

 Acastle in the air

27．滥竽充数

 Passing oneself off as a member of the orchestra

28．狼狈为奸

 A wolf working hand in glove with a jackal

29．老马识途

 An old horse knows the way

30．梁上君子

 A gentleman on the beam

31．临渴掘井

 Not digging a well until one is thirsty

32．满城风雨

 A storm enveloping the city

33．盲人摸象

 Blind men touching an elephant