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【每週成語】
投筆從戎

楊愛民

成語:投筆從戎(TOU BI CONG RONG): to throw away one’s pen and get into a uniform—join the military service voluntarily; to put on uniforms.
出處:後漢書,班超傳。
釋義:勉勵人有愛國情操,志在四方,寧願埋骨沙場,勿老死牖下。
故事:東漢初年,有一位著名的歷史人物名班超。班超是漢書作者之一班彪的小兒子,他從小就有大志。班超在家很辛苦地幫忙做家事,從不抱怨。他喜歡讀書,閱讀廣博。他言辭流利,有說服力。
漢明帝永平5年,班超的哥哥班固被派到首都洛陽任校書郎的官,他和母親隨哥哥遷到洛陽居住。由於生活困苦,班超不得不替官衙繕寫些文件,很辛苦的賺取些酬勞維持家用。有一次,他正在寫字,猛然將筆甩在地上,嘆口氣道,“大丈夫縱然沒有其他的志願,也應該仿效傅介子、張騫那樣,立功於異域。那能老是埋頭於筆墨生涯裡呢?”旁人笑他發癡。他說,“你們這些俗人哪裡知道壯士的志氣呢?”
後來,班超果然出使西域,付出畢生的歲月和精力,發揮所有的智慧和勇氣,與西域50多個國家打交道,使漢朝在西域擴張廣大的領土並保持和平30多年。直至漢和帝時,班超因功封為定遠侯。由於年老才回到國內,他在西域待了31年。
用法:張三勉勵他兒子說, “你應該仿效班超,‘投筆從戎’,留名青史。”
故事英譯:During the Era of East Han Dynasty, there was a historic figure, named Ban Chao, also the youngest son of one of the authors of “The History of the Han Dynasty” Ban Biao. Ban Chao was ambitious since his childhood and helped to do house chores hardly without any complain. He liked reading books with wide categories and was eloquent, persuasive.
In the 5-year of Yong Ping of Emperor Ming of East-Han Dynasty, Ban Chao’s elder brother Ban Gu was appointed to be the Book-Reviser Official at Luo Yang, the Capital, Ban Chao and his mother also followed Ban Gu staying in the capital. Because of hardship of livelihood and having to maintaining livelihood, Ban Chao could not but earn a little reward hardly by writing documents for the government. Once upon a time, when he was writing, suddenly he threw away his writing brush on the ground and said with a sigh, “A man, even has no other ambitions, should follow the steps of Fu Jie zi, or Zhang Qian, who had established merits in foreign lands, how can one be buried in such a livelihood of the brush-ink works all his life? “ Others beside him laughed at him being a dementia. But he said, “How can you the laymen understand the ambition of a hero?”
Afterward, Ban Chao was truly appointed as the envoy of Han court to deal foreign affairs with more than 50 states in Western territory: including nowadays Xin Jiang, western part of Gan Su, northern part of Mt. Cong Ling, and many emirate states in Mideast area. He spent all his life-span and energy with all his wisdom, courage, and overcoming numerous risks to develop vast territories and keep peace in Western territories for more than 30 years. He was, depending on his achievements, bestowed as the Marquis Ding Yuan by the emperor of Han. In the period of Emperor He of Han Dynasty, because of his too old age, Ban Chao returned hometown from Western Territory. He totally stayed in Western Lands for 31 years.



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