简单的英语成语小故事1 YangJianwastheregent(摄政王)ofthelastkingofNorthernZhou(557-581). Hiswifeadvisedhim:Nor下面是小编为大家整理的简单英语成语小故事五篇,供大家参考。
简单的英语成语小故事1
Yang Jian was the regent(摄政王) of the last king of Northern Zhou(557-581).
His wife advised him: "Northern Zhou is dying. Now it is as if you are riding on the back of a tiger. It will be dangerous to dismount(下马，下车) . You can do nothing but continue."
Yang Jian thought this quite reasonable. Later, he founded the Sui Dynasty, and united China once more.
This idom is used as a metaphor meaning that one is in a difficult situation and cannot help but ontinue to pursue one"s sourse.
简单的英语成语小故事2
Adding Eyes to a Dragon
Mr. Li is a good painter. One day he draws a beautiful dragon without eyes.
Mr. Zhou looks at the picture and says, “The dragon has no eyes. It isn’t a good picture.”
But Mr. Li smiles and says, “If I add eyes to the dragon, it will fly away.”
Mr. Zhou shakes head and says, “You are boasting. I don’t believe you.”
Mr. Li isn’t angry. He holds the paintbrush and adds eyes to the dragon. Woe! The dragon really flies.
画龙点睛
李先生是位很好的画家。一天画了一条栩栩如生的龙，但是这只龙没有眼睛。
周先生见了说：“这条龙没有眼睛。这不算一张好画。”
可是李先生笑着说：“如果我给它加上眼睛，它就会飞走了。”
周先生摇头说：“你吹牛。我不相信。”
李先生也不生气，只是拿起笔给龙点上眼睛。哇！龙真的飞走了。
简单的英语成语小故事3
be concentrating on sth
专心致志
Yi Qiu was known as the most famous expert at chess throughout the land.
奕秋是全国最有名的棋手。
Once he gave lessons on chess to two men.
有一次，他教两个人下棋。
One of them was completely absorbed in his teaching, listening attentively to Yi Qiu while the other, who seemed to be listening, had his mind on something else.
一个认真的听课，完全沉浸于其中。 另一个尽管看上去也在听课，其实在想其它的事情。
In fact, he was having a fancy that a swan was flying towards him and he had in his hands a bow and an arrow, ready to shoot.
他幻想有只天鹅正朝他飞来，而他拿着弓和箭准备把它射下来。
As a result, though he was having the same lesson together with the first man, yet he turned out a much inferior student.
所以，虽然他和另一个人上的是同样的课，他学得可差多了。
If one is not concentrating on his study, no skills will be learned.
不专心致志的学习，什么技能都学不会。
大家是不是一直对“be concentrated on sth”和“be concentrating on sth”感到有些迷惑呢?今天就有我来给大家讲解一下吧~
我们先来看一段话：
The teacher wrote two sentences on the whiteboard and asked us what’s the difference. “He is very concentrated on…” and “He is very concentrating on.”
老师在白板上写下两句话，让我们说出区别，这两句句子是“He is very concentrated on…”和“He is very concentrating on.”
A girl sits besides me said it was very similar as the way “surprised” and “surprising” is used.
做在我身边的女孩说这两句句子的区别就是“surprised”和 “surprising” 的区别类似。
He is surprised means he is surprised by something. He is surprising means he himself is something surprising.
“He is surprised”意思就是“他感到很惊喜”，而“He is surprising”意思则是“他总是让别人感到很惊喜。”
“Good,” the teacher says,”Concentrated means something with high density, like concentrated jam and orange juice. If you want to say the person is focusing on something mentally you should use ‘He is concentrating on…’”.
“非常好，”老师说，“Concentrated就是说某样东西西密度很高，浓度很大，就像是果酱、橘子汁”，但如果你想说某人专心致志做某事就是“He is concentrating on…”.
Oh….. my goodness, I must have been saying he is concentrated on … for decades now.
哦，我的天啊，我至少说“he is concentrated on……”有十年时间了。
相信大家通过这么一段话，都理解这两句话其中的差别了吧~
简单的英语成语小故事4
during the late years of the qi dynasty(221-206bc), xiang yu led a rebellion. after crossing the zhang river, xiang yu ordered his men to sink all their boats and break their cooking pots.
he issued each soldier three days" rations(给养) and warned them that there was no way to retreat; the only thing they could do to survive was to advance and fight.
after mine fierce battles, the qin army was finally defeated.
this idiom is used to indicate one"s firm determination to achieve one"s goal at any cost.
简单的英语成语小故事5
During the Han Dynasty, there was a county magistrate called Ying Bin. One summer day, he invited his secretary Du Xuan to his house and treated him with wine. On the north wall of the room hung a red bow. It was reflected in Du Xuan"s cup. Du Xuan took the reflection for a squirming snake. He was very frightened but he dared not turn down Ying Bin"s offer because he was his superior. He had to swallow the wine with his eyes closed.
When he was back at home he felt so painful in his chest and stomach that he could hardly eat and drink any more.
He sent for the doctor and tried much medicine but nothing could cure him.
When Ying Bin asked Du Xuan how he got so seriously ill, Du told him he drank the wine with a snake in his cup the other day. Ying Bin found something strange about that. He turned home, thought hard, but he couldn"t find an answer. Suddenly the bow on the north wall caught his eye. "That"s it!" he shouted. He immediately sent his man to fetch Du Xuan. He seated him where he sat before and offered him a cup of wine.
Du Xuan saw the snake-like shadow again. Before Du was scared out of his wits again, Ying Bin said, pointing at the shadow, "The "snake"in the cup is nothing but a reflection of the bow on the north wall!"
Now that Du Xuan knew what it was, he felt much easier. his illness disappeared the next moment!
This story was later contracted into the idiom-mistake the reflection of a bow in the cup for a snake. We use it to describe someone who is very suspicious.
