江郎才尽
      Explanation: Jiang: Southern Yan Liang Shiwen people. Yan rare original text refers to the name of his later years Evans failure. Recession imaginative metaphor
      Usage: The main predicate; as the predicate attribute, complement; for written language
      Source: Qing Li Ruzhen "Flowers in the Mirror" 91 back: "Now get this, but I do not know may be perfunctory examination paper. I was really run out of ideas of your trouble."
      Examples: No, he can not, and Chrysanthemum disband. Bulk of the partnership, he will feel empty, lonely, bored, or also drop a ~, and even write the poems. (Lao She, "Four Generations" Fifty-five)
      Story: Source "Appreciative Yan Biography" Ye Ting Shou places to try, the dream of a husband, claiming that flooded Guo Pu said: "I have a pen in the Department of State for many years. You can see also." Drowning is the probe arms may jade color pen to teach him; later poetry, no U.S. sentence, when the only people that do. Interpretation, "Jiang", the Guide towards the writer Yan, a young man is very talented, Evans gradually decline late in life. "Do", finished, no more. Jiang's literary talent was gone. Decreased imaginative metaphor. Story of Yan, Wen Tong words, when he was young to become a Dingdingyouming writer, his poetry and articles at the time the evaluation was very high. However, when he is getting older, he has not before the article was well written, and many _set_backs. His poems written in black and white; and pick up a pen warble for a long time, still can not write a word, occasionally inspired and; poems written, but the textual Kuse, insipid content was completely useless. So he was the legend, once a boat parked in the Zen spirit of Jiang Yan Monastery of the river and dream of a person claiming to be named Zhang Jingyang; to him repay a silk, he arrested a few feet from her silk is also him. Therefore, it is not after his article was wonderful. It was also legend; have a booth in metallurgical nap Jiang Yan; dreamed of a man claiming to Guo Pu, approached him to claim his pen, and said to him: "Brother Wen Tong, I have a pen in your place has been a long time, now it should be returned to me! "Yan listening to dig out from the arms of a colored pen to still him. It is said that since then, Jiang Yan for Evans exhausted, no longer can write a good article.
  • Thesaurus:  Total poor exhausted, Total poor power to do, Jiang Yan to have exhausted one's talent, Only Exhaust chile exhausted, at one's wits' `end not knowing what to do or say because of worry or desperation
  • Antonym Group:  person distinguished from the common run, Clank Jiaojiao