字词 | 指鹿为马 |
释义 | ‘这是马。’二世笑着说: ‘丞相错了吧,把鹿说成马了。’问旁边的人,有的不说话,有的说是马,有的说是鹿。事后赵高就暗中把说是鹿的人杀了(见于《史记·秦始皇本纪》)。{call a deer a horse. According to Records of the Historian·Official Records of Qinshihuang, during the reign of the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Prime Minister Zhao Gao wanted to revolt, and the first thing he did was to sound the other ministers out for fear that some of them might refuse to follow his line. During a court session, he presented a deer to the emperor, saying, ‘This is a horse.’ ‘You are wrong, my Prime Minister,’ the emperor said, laughing. ‘You've mistaken the deer for a horse.’ When opinions were canvassed from those present, some remained silent, some said it was a horse, and some insisted it was a deer. Afterwards Zhao Gao had all those who called the deer a deer put to death.}〈比喻 |
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