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小学生英语故事演讲 be afraid of ones own shadow 草木皆兵 In AD 383, the king of Former Qin 秦朝, Fu Jian fú jiān 苻坚, led a huge army to attack Eastern Jin. 公元383年，秦王苻坚率领步兵、骑兵90万，攻打江南的晋朝。 After losing the first round of fighting, Fu Jian looked down from a city wall, and was terrifiedwhen he saw the formidable battle array of the Eastern Jin army. 在一轮战败后，苻坚从城墙俯视周遭，当他看到势不可破的东晋部队，他感到很害怕。 And then looking at the mountains around, he mistook the grass and trees for enemysoldiers. 此时，苻坚在寿春城上望见晋军队伍严整，士气高昂，再北望八公山，只见山上一草一木都像晋军的士兵一样，于是更加恐慌。 As a result, when the nervous Fu Jian led his army into battle, it suffered a crushing defeat. 后来苻坚全军覆没，带着少数残余的队伍逃回去了。 This idiom describes how one can defeat oneself by imaging difficulties. 这个成语后来形容人在极度惊恐时，疑神疑鬼的心理状态。 to add insult to injury/to add fuel to the fire 抱薪救火 In the last years of the Warring States period 战国, 475-221BC, the State of Qin 秦国 attacked the State of Wei 魏国 on a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land, for the State of Wei was too weak to defend itself. 战国末期，秦国向魏国接连发动大规模的进攻，魏国无力抵抗，大片土地都被秦军占领了。 In 273 BC, the Qin army launched another attack upon the State of Wei with a momentummore vigorous than ever. The king of the State of Wei summoned his officials,and asked with a worried look if anyone could propose a way to defeat the Qin army. 到公元前273年，秦国又一次向魏国出兵，势头空前猛烈。魏王把大臣们召来，愁眉苦脸地问大家有没有使秦国退兵的办法。 After years of chaos caused by the wars,the officials trembled when fighting was mentioned, and no one dared to speak of “resistance”. 大臣们由于经过多年的战乱，提起打仗就吓得哆嗦，谁也不敢谈“抵抗”二字。 At the critical moment when a large enemy force was approaching the border, most of the officials persuaded the king to sue for peace, at the cost of giving away to the State of Qin the large area of land north of the Huanghe River huáng hé 黄河 and south of the Taihang Mountain tài háng shān 太行山. 在这大兵压境的危急时刻，多数大臣都劝魏王，用黄河以北和太行山以南的大片土地为代价，向秦王求和。 However Su Dai sūdài 苏代,