技：技艺。指具有某种技能的人，一遇机会，便情不自禁地想表现一下。

Unconsciously itching to practice skills

比喻片段而珍贵的文字。

Breaking silk and shattered jade

指考察疑端，排除难点。

Probe doubts and solve difficulties

侈衣，华美的衣服；美食，鲜美的食物。言衣食俱精。

Extravagant clothing and delicious food

席：坐席。把席割断，分开坐。比喻朋友绝交。

Cut the mat and sit apart

洒水扫地，酬答宾客。封建时代儒家教育、学习的基本内容之一。

Sweeping and responding

①指习惯于读死书、传旧闻。②指诵习。

Recite and practice what is handed down

佛教禅宗用语。指离开语文文字而以慧心相传授。

koan

愤：心里想弄明白而还不明白。启：启发。指不到学生们想弄明白而还没有弄明白时，不去启发他。这是孔子的教学方法。

explain unless one is desperately anxious to learn

某个钉子一定要安在相应的铆处，不能有差错。形容对事认真，毫不含糊。

strictprecise

比喻已达目的，即忘其凭借。“荃”亦作“筌”。

forget the trap as soon as the fish is caught forget the means by which the end is attained forget the things or conditions which bring one success ingratitude

好：喜爱；深：深入。好学而心细，勤于思考。比喻心力并用

Studious and contemplative

用功劳来抵罪。

atone for a crime by doing good deeds

比喻说话办事须从实际出发。同“量凿正枘”。

Fit by measurement and carve by chisel

①使用十八般兵器的本领。亦泛指多种武艺。②比喻多种技能。

skill in wielding the 18 kinds of weapons skill in various types of combat

指巨大的功利。

Abundant achievements and great profits

指老师的教诲。

The teaching of peaches and plums

见“ 耳濡目染 ”。

Soaking in what one hears and sees

协：合）指思想一致，共同努力。

Work together sincerely

比喻积累收聚。

Piling earth and gathering sand