【楊愛民】
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成語：欲蓋彌彰（YU GAI MI ZHANG）:the more one tries to hide, the more one is exposed; he who excuses himself accuses himself; one exposes himself unwittingly while trying to cover up his tricks; the harder one tries to conceal thing the more it attracts attention; the more concealed the more conspicuous；one who tries cover up ( a secret , plot etc. ) the better-known it will become.
出處：左傳，昭公31年。
釋義：一個人越想將自己的過錯掩蓋起來，結果越使他的過錯彰顯。
故事：春秋時代魯昭公31年，邾國有位市長名黑肱，偷偷地將濫邑（今山東藤縣）送給魯國，其目的是希望魯國能給他政治庇護。可是魯國是非常重禮義的國家，因為魯國人是周公的後裔，而周公就是為周朝創作禮樂的人；所以在魯國的史冊上便記錄了黑肱大夫的名字逃奔魯國之事。魯國的正人君子批評這件事說，“一個人對自己的名字應該好好保護，不應該使自己的名字受到侮辱。凡是盜竊自己的城市、背叛自己國家的人，其罪狀就永遠記錄在史冊上，終身成為不義之人。奇怪的是有些人本來想求名，而史冊上卻不寫出他們的名字；又有些人不想自己的名字在史冊上出現，而史冊上卻將他們的大名大書特書。”
用法：張三與李四的老婆有染，李四要告張三。張三說我們只是業務上的來往。李四說，“你是‘欲蓋彌彰’，你們在XX 旅舍有了記錄，想賴也賴不掉。”
故事英譯： In the 31rst year of Duke Zhao of Kingdom Lu during the Era of Spring and Autumn, Governor Hei Gong of Dukedom Zhu gave stealthily Lan County of Zhu ( Teng County, Shan Dong, today) to Kingdom Lu, for the purpose that the ruler of Kingdom Lu let him have a political refuge in Lu. However, Kingdom Lu was a country of practicing etiquette and justice strictly because the people of Lu were Duke Zhou’s descendants, and Duke Zhou was the person who was making etiquette and music for Zhou Dynasty; so in Kingdom Lu’s annals, there was a record of the event that Governor Hei Gong had been a fugitive in Lu. Lu’s gentlemen judged the event and said, “One should protect one’s name carefully, never let one’s name be stained with stigma. The quilts of those who sold their cities or lands stealthily to foreigners should be recorded in the national annals, and those would become the persons of unrighteousness forever; and their crimes could not be removed away eternally. Oddly somebodies who wanted their names being appeared in the annals, anyway their names can’t be seen in the chronicles; while somebodies don’t want their names being seen in the chronicles, but their names always be written in the chronicles. ”
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