Grade 13 Short Idiom Story

Answer 1

Here are some short idiom stories suitable for third years:

** Mencius 'mother moved three times **
When Mencius was three years old, his father passed away. He and his mother lived near the cemetery at first, and Mencius often saw funerals. Worried that it would affect his studies, Mother Meng moved to a place near the market. However, the scene of slaughtering pigs and selling meat in the market was not conducive to his studies, so she moved to a place near the school. Mencius saw the scholar reading every day and fell in love with reading, so they settled down. This idiom was used to describe the importance of choosing a good learning environment.

** Dig the wall to steal the light **
Kuang Heng of the Han Dynasty was poor and could not afford candles and lamp oil, so he could not read at night. He found that the rich man next door lit candles every night. The room was very bright, so he secretly chiseled a small hole in the wall and used the light from the small hole to study hard. Later, he became a very knowledgeable person. This idiom refers to trying to study hard.

** I have a plan **
The Song Dynasty painter Wen Yuke was especially good at painting bamboos. The bamboos he painted were vivid and lifelike. In order to draw bamboo well, he planted a lot of bamboo in front of and behind the house, carefully observing the shape and changes of bamboo in the four seasons. Therefore, every time he painted, he already had a vivid and realistic image of bamboo in his mind. This idiom is used to indicate that one has ample preparation and assurance before doing something.

** Practice makes perfect **
Chen Yaozi of the Song Dynasty shot an arrow through a thin branch. Just as he was feeling smug, an old man selling oil next to him placed a copper coin on the mouth of the oil gourd. He scooped a spoonful of oil and poured it down from a high place. The oil passed through the small hole in the copper coin and flowed into the oil gourd. Chen Yaozi was very surprised. The old man said that practice made perfect. This idiom means that once you are familiar with something, you will get the hang of it.

** Waiting for the rabbit **
There was a farmer in the State of Song who was working in the fields when a rabbit ran into a tree stump in the field and broke its neck. The farmer put down his farming tools and guarded the stump, hoping to get the rabbit again. However, the rabbit could not be obtained again, and he was laughed at by the people of Song. This idiom satirizes those who try to get something without sowing.

** Three people become a tiger **
One of them heard from Little Wang from the class next door that the school would hold the final exam a month earlier. Because many people said so, he believed it. Later, someone reminded him that the school would not make such a sudden decision. His gullibility of rumors was like a story of three people becoming a tiger. Three Men Becoming a Tiger was saying the same thing. When more people said it, rumors would become facts. It warned people not to believe rumors easily and not to spread rumors.

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