我们现在使用的成语,多数都是经过了长期积累和发展过程的,这使成语本身不可避免地要或多或少带有历史的痕迹。这种历史痕迹的表现之一就是至今许多成语中还保留着古汉语的暗喻形式。这里谈的暗喻形式,是指古汉语独有的、现代汉语中基本消失了的,却仍然存在 Most of the idioms we now use have undergone a long process of accumulation and development, which makes the idioms inevitably more or less marked by history. One of the manifestations of this historical trace is that many metaphorical forms of ancient Chinese are still retained in many idioms. The metaphorical form in this discussion refers to the fact that the ancient Chinese was unique and basically disappeared in modern Chinese but still exists