西颦东效西施捧心、东施效颦。比喻以丑陋学美好而愈显其丑。[查看详情]

步人后尘跟在别人后面走。比喻追随模仿走别人走过的老路。[查看详情]

因循守旧死守老一套不图更新。英lockstep; follow the beaten track old routine;[查看详情]

邯郸学步比喻一味模仿别人非但没有学到别人的长处反倒失去了自身的特色。例论文要得文中天邯郸学步终不然。——宋姜夔《送项平甫倅池阳》英imitate others slavishly and thus lose one's individuality;也作“学步邯郸”[查看详情]

拾人牙慧拾取别人的片言只语当做自己的话。例这话听起来很有见地其实不过是拾人牙慧没有一点自己的东西。英pich up what others say;[查看详情]

墨守成规比喻拘泥于成见而不善于机变。英stick to conventions;[查看详情]

固步自封比喻安于现状不求改善。例大多数成年人固步自封。英refuse to make progress; stand still and cease to move a step forward; be ultraconservative and selfsatisfied with old practices;亦作“故步自封”例我们不能固步自封夜郎自大，有了一点成绩就沾沾自喜。[查看详情]

故步自封故步：旧时行步的方法。遵行旧时的步法而封闭自限。喻墨守成规不求进步。英confine oneself to the old method; stand still and cease to move a step forward;[查看详情]

胶柱鼓瑟鼓瑟时胶住瑟上的弦柱，就不能调节音的高低。比喻固执拘泥不知变通。语出《史记廉颇蔺相如列传》：“王以名使括，若胶柱而鼓瑟耳。[查看详情]

照本宣科形容只是死板地照本子念不能结合实际灵活发挥。英read item by item from the text;[查看详情]

蹈常袭故墨守成规沿用旧法。指照老规矩办事。例后之君子蹈常而袭故，惴惴焉惧不免于天下。——宋苏轼《伊尹论》英go on in the same old way; be a slave to old methods of doing things; follow the conventional tradition;[查看详情]

老生常谈原义为年老书生的平凡议论泛指经常说起的老话。例邓颺怒曰：“此老生之常谈耳！”辂曰：“老生者见不生常谈者见不谈。”——《三国演义》英be trite and commonplace; common talk of an old scholar; commonplace; platitude; standing dish; sunday schools truth;[查看详情]

生搬硬套比喻不顾实际情况硬搬别人的经验。例教条主义者不从实际情况出发决定方针政策只是生搬硬套现成的公式来处理问题。英copy mechanically in disregard of specific conditions;[查看详情]

守株待兔比喻死守经验不知变通。亦用以讽刺妄想不劳而获的侥幸心理。英stand by a stump waiting for more hares to come and clash themselves against it—trust to chance and windfalls;[查看详情]

抱残守缺守着残缺的东西不放。形容思想守旧不知变革。英be conservative; be a sticker (traditionalist) for ancient ways and things;[查看详情]

萧规曹随汉扬雄《解嘲》：“夫萧规曹随留侯画策，陈平出奇，功若泰山响若阺隤，唯其人之赡知哉，亦会其时之可为也。”按，萧指萧何，曹指曹参。[查看详情]

矮子看戏喻己无所见而随声附和。[查看详情]

东施效颦《庄子天运》中故事美女西施因病而皱着眉头邻居丑女见了觉得很美就学西施也皱起眉头，结果显得更丑。后人称这个丑女为东施。用“东施效颦”比喻盲目模仿别人结果适得其反。英play the ape; blind imitationwith ludicrous effect; look all the uglier by miimicking[查看详情]

人云亦云云：说。形容遇事无主见顺随别人的意见。例人云亦云人否亦否，何为者耶？——清叶燮《原诗》英to say what everybody says;[查看详情]

陈陈相因仓中粮食逐年累加久而不食，则变为陈粮。后以此比喻处理问题因袭旧法毫无改进。英follow a set routine; do sth in a conventional way;[查看详情]