| 释义 |
断鹤续凫duàn hè xù fútry to shorten the neck of a crane and lengthen that of an owl—to go against nature
❍ ～，矫作者妄； 移花接木，创始者奇； 而况加凿削于心肝，施刀锥于颈项者哉？ (《聊斋志异·陆判》) To chop short the crane’s legs and stretch the duck’s is the folly of artificiality,but grafting a flower to a tree is a marvel of creativity. How true these two statements are when vitals are to be hacked up and knives are to be wielded against necks!/一方面，我们要敢想敢干，另一方面，我们也不能～。On the one hand,we should dare to think and dare to act,but on the other,we should not go against natural law. 断鹤续凫duàn hè xù fú截断鹤的长腿，接到野鸭的短腿上。比喻违背自然规律办事。go against nature, unnaturally |