literati anecdote : idiom > throw aside the writing brush and join the army
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Toubicongrong
投笔从戎
  Explanation: Congrong: the army, join the army. Throw away the pen to join the army. Refers to the civilian army.
  Usage: -Linked; as the predicate attribute; with compliment
  Source: Southern Song Fan Ye, "Biography of the Later Han Ban Chao": "a poor family, and often official commission to support the book. Long labored, and taste the cease business investment pen sighed and said: 'real man ... ... An inter-study document can almost do a long time?' meritorious service after Western, Feng Hou given away. "
  Examples: He, like gossip, as the children of the same family friend, asked a question Heren Long's family situations, "~" and after. (Yao Xueyin "Rereading" The second volume Chapter XXII)
  Riddle: Scholar soldiers
No. 2
  "Later Han Ban Chao Biography" contains Ban Chao was poor, the official copy of work to do, who to vote sigh document, said a real man should be in the border of national merit, how can a living between the old and in the slab, too! After the Pen for the Sword "means the civilian army .
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tóu bǐ cóng róng
  After the Ban Chao Han Chinese lived in poverty, the official copy of work to do, once Zhibi sigh that a real man should be in the border of national merit, how can a living between the old and in the slab, too! Future generations to civilian army called Pen for the Sword
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No. 4
  "Later Han Ban Chao Biography": "﹝ ﹞ Ban Chao was poor, often an official commission to support the book. Long toil, to try suspend business investment and document said, sighing: 'real man without it Chi slightly, still as effective Fujie Zi, Zhang Qian meritorious exotic, to take Monkey, Ann can do for a long time between document research almost? '"meritorious service after the Western Region, Feng Hou given away. , Due to the "Pen for the Sword" as the text on the military abandoned the story. Tang ang "as Kingo General Chen to make English please avoid official table": "How fortunate to always just, civil and military and palace, beginning on 18, Pen for the Sword." Clarify and state the amount of "Night Tan Records on CUI Xiu-only": "Japanese sample Pen for the Sword, chat Bo Sheng fight? "Yang Mo" Song of Youth "second second seven chapters:" If I was young twenties, I immediately Pen for the Sword, the snow this humiliation! "
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投笔从戎 ( tóu bǐ cóng róng )
  【解释】:投:扔掉。指弃文从武,投身疆场,为国立功,施展抱负
  【出处】: 南朝·宋·范晔《后汉书·班超传》:“超家贫,常为官佣书以供养。久劳苦。尝辍业投笔叹曰:“大丈夫无他志略,犹当效傅介子、张骞立功西域,以取封侯。安能久事笔研间乎?”后立功西域,封定远侯。
  【用法】:连动式;作谓语、定语;含褒义
  【示例】:1、杨沫《青春之歌》第二部第27章:“如果我现在是二十几岁的青年,我要立刻~,雪此国耻。” 2、他像同世交子弟闲话一样,问了问贺人龙的家庭情形,“~”的经过。 ★姚雪垠《李自成》第二卷第二十二章3、季交恕写了一道上黎元洪‘自愿投笔从戎,请求破格录用’的半万言书。 ★李六如《六十年的变迁》第三章
  【近义词】:弃文就武、弃笔从戎
  【反义词】:解甲归田
  【灯谜】:秀才当兵
  【典故】:班超是东汉一个很有名气的将军,他从小就很用功,对未来也充满了理想。 公元62年(汉明帝永平五年),班固被明帝刘庄召到洛阳,做了一名校书郎,班超和他的母亲也跟着去了。当时,因家境并不富裕,班超便找了个替官家抄书的差事挣钱养家。 但是,班超是个有远大志向的人,日子久了,他再也不甘心做这种乏味的抄写工作了。有一天,他正在抄写文件的时候,写着写着,突然觉得很闷,忍不住站起来,丢下笔说:“大丈夫应该像傅介子、张骞那样,在战场上立下功劳,怎么可以在这种抄抄写写的小事中浪费生命呢!”后来,班超出使西域,终于立了功被封了侯。傅介子和张骞两个人,生在西汉,曾经出使西域,替西汉立下无数功劳。因此,班超决定学习傅介子、张骞,为国家作贡献。后来,他当上一名军官,在对匈奴的战争中,得到胜利。接着,他建议和西域各国来往,以便共同对付匈奴。公元73年,朝廷采取他的建议,就派他带着数十人出使西域。他以机智和勇敢,克服重重困难,联络了西域的几十个国家,断了匈奴的右臂,使汉朝的社会经济保持了相对的稳定,也促进了西域同内地的经济文化交流。班超一直在西域呆了三十一年。其间,他靠着智慧和胆量,度过了各式各样的危机。他为当时的边境安全,东西方人民的友好往来做出了卓越的贡献
  【原文】:《后汉书·班超传》:为人有大志,不修细节。然内孝谨,居家常执勤苦,不耻劳辱。有口辩,而涉猎书传。永平五年。兄固被召诣校书郎,班超与母随至洛阳。家贫,常为官佣书以供养。久劳苦,尝辍业投笔叹曰:“大丈夫无它志略,犹当效傅介子、张骞立功异域,以取封侯,安能久事笔砚间乎?”左右皆笑之。超曰:“小子安知壮士志哉!” 后超出使西域,竟立功封侯。
English Expression
  1. n.:  throw aside the writing brush and join the army,  renounce the pen for the sword,  give up civilion pursuits for a military career
  2. v.:   throw away one's pen and get into a military uniform,  (of a student,  or intellectual) to join the military service voluntarily
Thesaurus
to fight up and down the country, the glint and flash of cold steel, Arrow bow, as an arrow on the straining cordready to start, have fought a hundred battles, pelter, Disposable paper on the arms, fight in one place after another the winged steed, Nanzheng the Northward Expedition (inthe history of the Republic of China), Turn the Big Dipper the winged steed
Antonym
stick together, take off the armour and return to the farm, take off the armour (literally) to throw away weapons--to effect a cease-fire or truce, Anjiaqinbing, A truce by
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Containing Phrases
Ban Chao throw aside the writing brush and join the army