郢书燕说 词语解释
◎ 郢书燕说
yǐng shū yān shuō
ㄧㄥˇ ㄕㄨ ㄧㄢ ㄕㄨㄛ
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比喻穿凿附会，曲解原意。书证
- 皆因《家语》之言而失其义，所谓郢书燕说也。 —— 宋·王应麟《困学纪闻·经说八》
英文 misinterpretation through misreading
郢书燕说 国语辞典
郢人在给燕相的信中误写「举烛」二字，而燕相则解释尚明、任贤之义。典出《韩非子．外储说左上》。后比喻穿凿附会，扭曲原意。清．纪昀也作「燕说」。
书证
- 是不必然，亦不必不然，郢书燕说，固未为无益。 —— 《阅微草堂笔记．卷四．泺阳消夏录四》
郢书燕说 翻译
- 英语
- lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it, fig. to misinterpret the original meaning, to pile up errors, refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words /hold up the candle/ are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as /promote the wise