郢书燕说 詞語解釋
郢书燕说yǐng shū yān shuōㄧㄥˇ ㄕㄨ ㄧㄢ ㄕㄨㄛ
- 比喻穿鑿附會，曲解原意。書證
- 皆因《家語》之言而失其義，所謂郢書燕說也。——宋·王應麟《困學紀聞·經說八》
英文misinterpretation through misreading
郢书燕说 國語辭典
郢人在給燕相的信中誤寫「舉燭」二字，而燕相則解釋尚明、任賢之義。典出《韓非子．外儲說左上》。後比喻穿鑿附會，扭曲原意。清．紀昀也作「燕說」。
書證
- 是不必然，亦不必不然，郢書燕說，固未為無益。 ——《閱微草堂筆記．卷四．濼陽消夏錄四》
郢书燕说 翻譯
- 英語
- 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