| 单词 | 卧薪尝胆 |
| 释义 | 文馨英漢☞臥薪嚐膽卧薪尝胆 wòxīnchángdǎninure oneself for future trials卧薪尝胆wòxīnchángdǎnlit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Gou Jian of Yue 勾践[Gōu Jiàn]), in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom)fig. to maintain one's resolve for revengewòxīnchángdǎnlit. to lie on firewood and taste gall (idiom); fig. suffering patiently, but firmly resolved on revenge卧薪尝胆to endure great hardships in pursuit of one's goal; to sleep on firewood and eat gall卧薪尝胆 wò xīn cháng dǎn sleep on the brushwood (sticks) and taste the gall -- to nurse vengeance; endure hardships to accomplish some ambition; eat (swallow) the leek; (For days) I have lain, as it were, upon thorns, and my mouth filled with gall.; lie on faggots and taste gall -- undergo self-imposed hardships so as to strengthen one's resolve to wipe out a national humiliation; put up with an insult in order to take revenge; stoop to conquer (win): 他卧薪尝胆， 图谋报复。 He endured hardships to plan retaliation. 林语堂当代汉英繁简☞臥薪嘗膽卧薪尝胆[wò xīn cháng dǎn]越国被吴国打败，越王勾践立志报仇。据说他睡觉睡在柴草上头，吃饭、睡觉前都要尝一尝苦胆，策励自己不忘耻辱。经过长期准备，终于打败了吴国（《史记·越王勾践世家》只有尝胆事，苏轼《拟孙权答曹操书》才有‘卧薪尝胆’的话）。形容人刻苦自励，立志为国家报仇雪耻。sleep on brushwood and taste gall. The State of Yue was defeated by the State of Wu, and Gou Jian, King of Yue, resolved to make the revenge, and he slept on brushwood and tasted gall before eating and sleeping to remind himself of the humiliation. After a long period of preparations, he finally defeated the State of Wu. (Records of the Historian·Hereditary House of Gou Jian, King of Yue only writes of the king tasting gall, and the phrase‘sleep on brushwood and taste gall’did not occur until Su Shi coined it in his Draft Reply for Sun Quan to Cao Cao.) The phrase refers to undergoing self-imposed hardships to strengthen one's resolve to avenge a national humiliation or to accomplish an ambition.卧薪尝胆1. [Literal] to sleep on brushwood and taste gall2. to undergo self-imposed hardships; to nurse vengeance; to endure hardships to accomplish some ambition卧薪尝胆sleep on brushwood and taste gall—undergo self-imposed hardships |
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