idiom : common saying > Chopper chickens Yanyong
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Chopper chickens Yanyong
  Explanation: Why should kill the chicken slaughtering knife. Metaphors do not need to spend great efforts to do the little things.
  Usage: Complex sentence; as the predicate clause; metaphor do not need to spend great efforts to do the little things
  Source: Pre-Qin Confucian "Analects, XVII": "Master, smile and laugh, saying: 'Cut the chicken Yanyong chopper!'"
  Examples: "~"? Swinhoe personally do not work, I cut Zhongzhu Hou heads, such as Tannangquwu ears. (Ming Luo, "Three Kingdoms" The Fifth)
Yu do not have a waste of talent or fuss
  Yu do not overkill or fuss. Language of the "Analects of Confucius Yang goods": "Did you smile and laugh, saying: 'nutcracker!'" "Water Margin" Eighth Five back: "As the saying goes: 'chickens Yanyong chopper.' Where the consumer may orthodox army since last. "
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No. 3
  词目 杀鸡焉用牛刀 杀鸡焉用牛刀
  发音 shā jī yān yòng niú dāo
  释义 杀只鸡何必用宰牛的刀。比喻办小事情用不着花大气力。
  出处 《论语·阳货》:“子之武城,闻弦歌之声。夫子莞尔而笑,曰:‘割鸡焉用牛刀。’”
  示例 “~”?不劳温侯亲往,吾斩众诸侯首级,如探囊取物耳。(明·罗贯中《三国演义》第五回)
  故事 春秋时孔子提倡以礼乐教化百姓,他的学生子游在武城做官时,提倡礼乐。孔子到武城听到乐器的弹奏和优雅的歌唱,就对子游说:“割鸡焉用牛刀!”子游解释说:“君子学礼乐就能爱人,百姓学礼乐便于管理。”孔子十分赞许他的做法。
  原文
  子之武城,闻弦歌之声,夫子莞尔而笑,曰:割鸡焉用牛刀?子游对曰:昔者偃也闻诸夫子曰:君子学道则爱人,小人学道则易使也。子曰:二三子,偃之言是也。前言戏之耳。
  练习 :给加点字注音
  1.夫子(莞)尔而笑 wan (三声) 2.昔者(偃)也闻诸夫子 yan(三声)