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一、介绍汉语成语典故1
若是你是李华，你的美国笔友Mike来信向你询问汉语成语“揠苗助长”的含义。请你根据下面
的汉语提示用英语给Mike写封回信，向其解释该成语的由来和eidiomaticexpression,mostofwhichconsistoffourcharacters.
ChengyuwerewidelyusedinClassicalChineseandarestillcommon
tothemoststringentdefinition,thereareabout5,000chengyuin
theChineselanguage,thoughsomedictionarieslistover20,000.
TheyareoftenreferredtoasChineseidiomsorfour-characteridioms;
however,theyarenottheonlyidiomsinChinese.
附：BackgroundofChengyu
Chengyuare
mostlyderived
fromancient
literature.
The
meaning
of
a
chengyu
usuallysurpassesthesumofthemeaningscarriedbythefourcharacters,aschengyuare
oftenintimatelylinkedwiththemyth,
such,
chengyu
donot
follow
the
usual
grammatical
structure
and
syntax
of
the
modernChinesespokenlanguage,andareinsteadhighlycompactandsynthetic.
Chengyuinisolationare
oftenunintelligiblewithoutexplanation
,andwhenstudentsinChina
learn
chengyu
inschool
aspart
of
the
classicalcurriculum,
they
alsoneed
to
study
the
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,thephrase"breakthewoks,sinktheboats"
(孤注一掷,pòfǔchén
zhōu)
is
based
on
ahistorical
ac