英語介紹成語三令五申的由來

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英語介紹成語三令五申的由來

　　英語是按照分布面積而言最流行的語言，但母語者數量是世界第三，僅次于漢語、西班牙語。它是學習最廣泛的第二語言，是近60個主權國家的官方語言或官方語言之一。下面是小編整理的英語介紹成語三令五申的由來，歡迎大家分享。

英語介紹成語三令五申的由來

　　Repeated injunctions

　　In the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), the famous strategist Sun Wu known as Sun Zi came to see the King of the State of Wu, bringing along his great work The Art of War. He offered to help turn the State of Wu into a more powerful kingdom by training a strong army for it.The king was not quite convinced and asked, "Can you try your method out on a small army?"

　　"Yes", Sun Wu answered.

　　"Can you try them out on some women?"

　　"Why not?"

　　Then the king called in one hundred and eighty maids of honor and ordered Sun Wu to train them.

　　Sun Wu organized the young ladies into two teams and appointed two of the king's favorite concubines team leaders. Everyone was given a weapon and stood in line.

　　Now, Sun Wu asked these women, "do you know how to march forward, backward, to the left and to the right?"

　　"Yes, we do." They replied.

　　In spite of this, Sun Wu explained to them in great detail now to march in the four directions. He also told them time and again that they must obey orders and explained why.

　　Now, Sun Wu beat the drum and ordered the army to march to the right. To his disappointment, the young ladies who had never received military training before did not act as he had ordered but giggled. Sun Wu did not blame them but said in all seriousness: "It's the general's fault if he hasn't made himself clear." He then repeated several times what he had said a moment before.

　　Now, he beat the drum and gave an order to march to the left. The ladies giggled instead of taking his order. This time, Sun Wu said seriously: "Now the order has been made clear, so that's the leaders' faults not to obey that!" He ordered to behead the two leaders.

　　The king who was watching the training all the time was shocked and immediately sent someone to plead for mercy for his two concubines. But Sun Wu rejected the pleading. On his insistence, the two-team leaders were executed. Sun Wu appointed two new team leaders and went on with the training. Everybody turned very serious and acted correctly to Sun's orders, just like soldiers.

　　From then on, the troops of the state of Wu were trained by Sun Wu and became stronger and stronger.

　　From how Sun Wu repeated his orders comes the idiom "Repeating an order time and again"

　　Key words 重點詞匯

　　軍事家 strategist 武器 weapon 解釋 explain

　　重復 repeat 嚴肅 seriousness 堅持 insistence

　　Translation 譯文

　　春秋時期，著名的軍事家孫武(即孫子)帶著他的著作《孫子兵法》去見吳王。他提出要幫助吳國訓練一支強大的軍隊，使吳國成為一個更加強大的國家。吳王并不是非常相信他，問道：“你能用一支小型軍隊操演一下你的方法嗎?”孫子回答說：“可以。”

　　“能用女子來操演嗎?”

　　“可以啊。”

　　于是吳王召來一百八十名宮女，命令孫武來訓練她們。

　　孫武將宮女分為兩隊，叫吳王的兩個寵姬擔任隊長。給她們每人一件武器，排成一行。

　　接著，孫武問她們，“你們知道如何向前，向后，朝左，朝右?”