目录 3
一画ONE STROKE 3
一鸣惊人 3
Making A First Surprising Cry 4
一箭双雕 8
Kill Two Birds with One Stone 9
一朝一夕 12
A Day and A Night 13
一鼓作气 16
Pressing on to the Finish without Letup 18
一窍不通 21
All the Holes in Heart Are Obstructed 22
一毛不拔 25
Not Pulling out A Hair from the Body 26
一叶障目 29
Covering Eyes by A Leaf 30
一衣带水 33
A Belt of Water 34
一钱不值 37
Not Worth A Coin 38
一暴十寒 40
One Day under the Sun and Ten Days in Coldness 41
一字千金 44
One Thousand Liang of Gold for One Word 45
一身是胆 48
Brave from Head to Toe 49
二画 TWO STROKES 55
人面桃花 55
A Face Being like Peach Blossoms 57
人言可畏 59
Gossip Is A FearfulThing 60
人弃我取 62
Taking What Others Do Not Want 63
人人自危 65
Everyone Finds Himself in Danger 66
人杰地灵 69
A Place Propitious for Giving Birth to Great Men 70
人为刀俎 我为鱼肉 73
Being Meat on One's Chopping Block 75
七擒七纵 78
Seven Captures and Seven Releases 79
八面威风 81
Octahedral Majestic-looking 82
九牛一毛 84
A Single Hair out of Nine Ox Hides 85
了如指掌 87
Knowing Something like the Palm in One's Hand 88
力不从心 90
Ability Falling Short of One's Wishes 91
入木三分 94
Penetrating 3 Fens into the Wood 95
三画 THREE STROKES 99
三寸之舌 99
Three Cun Tongue 100
三人成虎 103
Three People Making A Tiger 104
三令五申 107
Repeated Injunctions 109
口若悬河 111
Mouth Is like A Hanging River 112
口蜜腹剑 114
Honey in Mouth,while Sword in Gut 116
大公无私 118
Selfless 119
大义灭亲 121
Punishing Own Relatives in the Cause of Justice 123
才高八斗 126
Eight Dous of Talents 126
千钧一发 128
Thirty Thousand Jin Hanging on A Hair 129
下笔成章 130
Start Writing and Come out as An Article 131
亡羊补牢 133
Mending the Fold after the Sheep Have Been Stolen 135
门庭若市 138
It Is like A Market at the Gate of the Court 139
四画 FOUR STROKES 145
不耻下问 145
Don'f Be Ashamed to Leam from One's Subordinates 146
不伦不类 148
Being Not like Anything 150
不自量力 152
Do without Thinking of One's Own Ability 153
不遗余力 155
Sparing No Efforts 157
不屈不挠 160
Unyielding 161
毛遂自荐 164
The Self-recommending of Mao Sui 165
天衣无缝 168
Sky Clothing Has No Chink 169
水滴石穿 172
Water Droplets Pierce through Stones 173
为虎作伥 176
Playing the Jackal to the Tiger 177
分道扬镳 180
Parting Company with Each Other 181
风声鹤唳 184
Scared by the Moan of Wind and the Cry of Cranes 186
专心致志 189
Single-hearted Devotion 190
五画 FIVE STROHKS 195
东山再起 195
Rising again from the East Mountain 196
东窗事发 199
Things under the East Window Exposed 200
东施效颦 203
Blind Imitation with Ludicrous Fffect 204
目不识丁 207
Not Knowing One's ABC 208
出尔反尔 211
Going back on One's Word 213
打草惊蛇 215
Beating the Grass and Frightening the Snake 216
叶公好龙 219
Lord Ye's Love of Dragons 220
功亏一篑 223
Failing to Build A Mound for Want of One Final Basket 224
世外桃源 227
The Land of Peach Blossoms 229
半途而废 232
Giving up Halfway 233
四面楚歌 236
Songs of Chu from All Sides 238
乐不思蜀 240
Indulging in Pleasure and Forgetting Own Country Shu 241