| 字词 | 望梅止渴 |
| 释义 | ‘前面有很大的一片梅树林,梅子很多,又甜又酸。’士兵听了,都流出口水来,不再嚷渴(见于《世说新语·假谲》)。{quench one's thirst by thinking of plums, a proverb from a story in A New Account of Tales of the World·Falsehood and Deception. During a march Cao Cao and his troops arrived at a place where there was no drinking water but the soldiers were very thirsty. Cao Cao said, ‘Just ahead of us there is a large forest of plum trees with a lot of sweet-and-sour plums.’ This made the mouths of the soldiers water, and no one was complaining of thirst any more;}〈比喻 |
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