英文典故
❶ 求英文的典故
In classic Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her, so he did— water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents: Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo gave music and Hermes, persuasion. The gods also gave her the gift of curiosity.
When Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Epimetheus, Prometheus' brother. With her, Pandora was given a beautiful box which she was not to open under any circumstance. Impelled by her curiosity given to her by the gods, Pandora opened the box-jar, and all evil contained escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the lid, but the whole contents of the jar had escaped, except for one thing that lay at the bottom, which was Hope. Pandora was deeply saddened by what she had done, and was afraid that she would have to face Zeus' wrath, since she had failed her ty. However, Zeus did not punish her, because he knew this would happen.
Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology, taken from the myth of Pandora's creation around line 60 of Hesiod's Works and Days. The "box" was actually a large jar given to Pandora which contained all the evils of the world. When Pandora opened the jar, all its contents except for one item were released into the world. The one remaining item was Hope.Today, opening Pandora's box means to create evil that cannot be undone.
❷ 英语中常用的典故
1. Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。
2. God helps those who help themselves.天助自助者
3. Easier said than done.说起来容易做起来难。
4. Slow and steady wins the race.稳扎稳打无往而不胜。
5. A fall into the pit,a gain in your wit.吃一堑，长一智。
6. Where there is a will,there is a way.有志者事竟成。
7. One false step will make a great difference.失之毫厘，谬之千里。
8. It's never too old to learn.活到老，学到老。
9. All that glitters is not gold.闪光的未必都是金子。
10. Experience is the mother of wisdom.实践出真知。
11. All work and no play makes jack a ll boy.只工作不休息，聪明孩子也变傻。
12. Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.无德之美犹如没有香味的玫瑰，徒有其表。
13. More hasty,less speed.欲速则不达。
14. Rome was not built in a day.伟业非一日之功。
15. Great minds think alike.英雄所见略同。
16. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.千里之行始于足下。
17. Look before you leap.三思而后行。
18. Facts speak plainer than words.事实胜于雄辩。
19. Call back white and white back.颠倒黑白。
20. well begun,half done.好的开始等于成功的一半。
21. It is hard to please all.众口难调。
22. Ill news travels fast.坏事传千里。
23. Out of sight,out of mind.眼不见，心不念。
24. Beauty will buy no beef.漂亮不能当饭吃。
25. Like and like make good friends.趣味相投。
26. First things first.凡事有轻重缓急。
27. A friend in need is a friend indeed.患难见真情。
28. To live is to learn,to learn is to better live.活着为了学习，学习为了更好的活着。
29. live not to eat,but eat to live.活着不是为了吃饭，吃饭为了活着。
30. Action speaks louder than words.行动胜过语言。
31. East or west,home is the best.金窝银窝不如自家草窝。
32. It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.君子在德不在衣。
33. An idle youth,a needy age.少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
34. As the tree,so the fruit.种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。
35. The older, the wiser.姜是老的辣。
❸ 英语典故
I did my best to avoid showing pleasure but what I was feeling was pure delight at this demonstration that my words had the power to make people laugh. In the eleventh grade, at the eleventh hour as it were, I had discovered a calling. 课文注释将划线部分解释为:“just before it is too late, at the last moment”。(我尽力不流露出得意的心情，但看到我写的文内章竟能使人大容笑,我真是心花怒放。就在十一年级，可谓是最后的时刻，我找到了一个今生想做的事。）
❹ 英语单词典故(要英文的)
SUNDAE
Long long ago,在美国西抄部有一个冷饮店，在一天营业时，老板发现有一个顾客在吃冰淇淋是先把水果酱挤在上面．这个老板如法炮制，结果大受欢迎．再后来，这个老板只在星期日(sunday)出售这种水果冰淇淋,并把它命名为”sundae".
这就是”sundae”的由来．
❺ 英语典故文章
The Heel of Achilles直译是“阿基里斯的脚踵”，是个在欧洲广泛流行的国际性成语。阿基里斯是希腊联军里最英勇善战的骁将，传说他是希腊密耳弥多涅斯人的国王珀琉斯和海神的女儿西蒂斯所生的儿子。阿基里斯呱呱坠地以后，母亲想使儿子健壮永生，把他放在火里锻炼，又捏着他的脚踵倒浸在冥河(Styx)圣水里浸泡。因此阿基里斯浑身象钢筋铁骨，刀枪不入，只有脚踵部位被母亲的手捏住，没有沾到冥河圣水，成为他的唯一要害。在特洛伊战争中，太阳神阿波罗(Apollo)把阿基里斯的弱点告诉了特洛伊王子帕里斯，阿基里斯终于被帕里斯诱到城门口，用暗箭射中他的脚踵，负伤而死。
因此， the Achilles' heel，常用以表示a weak point in something that is otherwise without fault; the weakest spot等意思。
The Achilles Heel of Achilles is "of first-teamers", is widely popular in Europe, The international idiom. The coalition is Greek Achilles courageous troops, legend he was renewed Greek peleus micah of more solid and daughter born the son of west di. When Achilles leash, mother wants to make her son robust life, put him in the fire, and the exercise of his fall in hades first-teamers river Styx (holy) soak. Therefore, as TieGu steel body Achilles first-teamers bulletproof, only by the mother's hand, not to hold water, can become his river, the key. In the Trojan war, Apollo (Achilles) the weakness of Apollo told the Trojan prince of Troy, Achilles was finally Paris to the gate, he shot with snake first-teamers die, wounded. Achilles' heel and so on, were used for a shift in that business without otherwise fault, The weakest spot.
❻ Archithey's heels 解释英文典故 典故来自古希腊神话
应该是Archilles吧~
Archilles' Heel是指致命的弱点,要害.
古希腊神话中的Archilles是海神之子,荷马史诗中的英雄,传说版他的母亲曾权把他浸在冥河里使其能刀枪不入.但因冥河水流湍急,母亲捏着他的脚后跟不敢松手,所以脚踵（因为脚后跟没有泡到）是最脆弱的地方,一个致命之处.因此埋下祸根.长大后,Archilles作战英勇无比,但终于给人发现了弱点,在特洛伊战争中,Archilles杀死了特洛伊王子Hector,因而惹怒了赫克托耳的保护神阿波罗,于是太阳神用箭射中了的脚后跟,送了这位勇士的命.[[[[但是我看电影Troy时、Archilles是被Pairs射的箭射中脚后跟而死的~]]]]
这就是至今流传在欧洲的谚语“Archilles' Heel”的来历.任何一个强者都会有自己的致命伤,没有不死的战神,是这个神话告诉人们的一个道理.
❼ 外国人常用英文典故知多少
最容易想起来的是来 Achilles heel 阿基里斯之踵源 （一般翻译为致命伤，比喻易受伤害的地方或致命弱点。）
Pandora's box 潘多拉的盒子 （意思就不解释了 大家都知道）比喻造成灾害的根源。
The mystery of the Steefan Kors 斯芬克斯之谜 比喻复杂、神秘、难以理解的问题。
Noah's Ark 诺亚方舟 比喻灾难中的避难所或救星。
The Muses 缪斯 人们常说的缪斯女神，古希腊的诗人、歌手都向缪斯呼告，祈求灵感。后来，人们就常用“缪斯”来比喻文学、写作和灵感等。
❽ 搜集英文典故的单词
cry wolf 虚发警报；慌报险情；危言耸听
bell the cat 自告奋勇去冒险；老虎头上拍苍蝇
a dog in the manger 占着茅坑不拉屎的人
Fish in Troubled Waters浑水摸鱼；趁火打劫；陷于混乱
cat's paw 被他人利用的人；受人愚弄者
Pull the chestnuts out of the fire火中取栗；替别人冒险
attic salt优雅的俏皮话；妙语
john bull(s)约翰牛；英国佬
Grin like a cheshire cat咧嘴傻笑；露齿嬉笑
A storm in a Teacup杯水风波；小题大做；大惊小怪
a tower of ivory 或an ivory tower象牙之塔；世外桃源
have an axe to grind别有用心；另有企图；怀有私心
separate the sheep from the goats区别好坏，分清良莠
a Cleopatra（克娄巴特拉），指绝代佳人——这是莎士比亚戏剧《安东尼和克娄巴特拉》中的人物。
a Shylock（夏洛克），指贪婪、残忍、追求钱财、不择手段的守财权——这是另一个莎士比亚戏剧《威尼斯商人》中的人物。
a Dr．Jekyll and Mr．Hyde（吉基尔医生和海德先生），指有双重性格的人；一方面善良、温和（吉基尔医生），另一方面凶恶、残暴（海德先生）——这是史蒂文生的小说《吉基尔医生和海德先生传》中的人物。
a Frankenstein（弗兰金斯坦；人们常说“制造一个弗兰金斯坦”），指杀伤原制造者的怪物或东西，也指制造这种东西的人以及可伯的怪物或人——这是玛丽·雪莱的小说《弗兰金斯坦》中的人物。这本书的主人公是医学院的学生。他把尸体中的骨头取来，制造了一个似人的怪物，最后自己被这个怪物杀害。
a Sherlock Holmes（歇洛克·福尔摩斯），指有非凡才能的侦探或敏锐精明的人，这种人善于通过仔细观察、科学分析和逻辑推理，进行追捕或解决疑难问题——歇洛克·福尔摩斯是阿瑟·柯南道尔著名侦探。
1. an apple of discord
any subject of disagreement and contention, the root of the trouble, dispute不和之因；祸根
eg: he throwing us an apple of discord, we soon quarreled again.
The dispute about inheriting estate formed an apple of discord between them
This problem seem to be an apple of discord between the Soviet Union and the USA.
2. The heel of Achilles/the Achilles’ heel
a week point in sth that is otherwise without fault; the weakest spot
eg:
The shortage of fortitude is his heel of Achilles.
His Achilles’ heel was his pride—he would get very angry if anyone criticized his work.
English might be his Achilles’ heel.
3.Helen of Troy:
a beauty who ruins her country. A terrible disaster brought by somebody or sth you like best.
eg: It is unfair that historians always attribute the fall of kingdoms to Helen of Troy.
She didn’t think of the beautiful umbrella bought the day before should become a Helen of Troy in her family. Because of this she and her husband quarreled for a long time.
4.The Trojan horse:
the hidden danger; the covert wreckers; to engage in underhand activities
The superpowers are always sending the Trojan Horses to many countries in the world.
They are defeated only because of the Trojan horse to many countries in the world.
They are defeated only because of the Trojan horse in their country.
5.Greek Gifts:
a gift with some sinister purpose of the enemy. A gift sent in order to murder somebody. = when the fox preaches, take care of your geese.
1.he is always buying you expensive clothes, I’m afraid they are Greek gifts for you.
2.Comrades, be on guard against the Greek gifts.
6.A Penelope’s web, the web of Penelope：a chaste woman, a Penelope’s web, the tactics of delaying sth on purpose; the task that can never be finished.
1. Mr. Jones made a long speech at the meeting. Everyone else though it a Penelope’s web.
7.Swan Song: black swan. A last or fare well appearance; the last work before death.
1. all the tickets have been sold for the singer’s performance in London this week----the public clearly believes that this will be her swan song.
2. The Tempest was Shakespeare’s swan song in 1612.
3. before turning over the gavel, he delivered the swan song as chairman of the board.
4. this building turned out to be the swan song of Victorian architecture.
8.Win/gain laurels: to win reputation; to acquire honor.
9.To look to one’s laurels: to beware of losing one’s reputation; to keep one’s record from being beaten by others. 卫冕
http://www.hjenglish.com/page/6893/
❾ 中文和英文典故特色（论文）
在诸语言中，我只有中文可以说及格了，按理没资格参加这类涉及其他语言的讨论，但忍内不住还是要容说两句：
一、只要说话者真地想把话说得严谨、精确、滴水不漏，那他一定能做到这一点，不管是使用中文还是英文。
二、同理，谁要是想equivocate，那他用中文或英文也同样都能做到这一点。
〔例：当年艾尔·戈尔的名言："I felt the numbness that prevented me from integrating into all aspects of my life the implications of what that tragedy really meant."（其姐因吸烟死于肺癌4年后，戈尔还仍在为烟草公司帮腔，记者提出了这个问题，戈尔于是给出了一个高智商的回答。）〕
三、历史上的确曾一度用拉丁文或法文来书写国际法（很遗憾我对这两者都是一窍不通），对此我想斗胆提出个假说：即这一现象与语言的严谨性无关，而是与罗马帝国以及法兰西帝国一度的国际地位有关。
❿ 有典故的英语单词
alarm， 原来打仗时，敌人来了发出警报都说all arm. arm 有武装的意思，所有人都武装起来的意思，后来说的快了就成了alarm.