在线词典
郢书燕说
郢：春秋战国时楚国的都城；书：信；燕：古诸侯国名；说：解释。比喻牵强附会，曲解原意。
- 拼音
- yǐng shū yān shuō
- 解释
- 郢：春秋战国时楚国的都城；书：信；燕：古诸侯国名；说：解释。比喻牵强附会，曲解原意。
- 近义词
- 牵强附会
- 英文释义
- lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it; fig. to misinterpret the original meaning; to pile up errors; refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"