成语主要有两个来源,一是来源于书面文献,如“破釜沉舟”“一鼓作气”;二是来自民间口语,如“七手八脚”“少见多怪”等。来自民间的谚语大多能“望文生义”,来自书面文献的则须了解这个成语形成的背景,才能确切把握它的含义。 There are two main sources of idioms, one is derived from written documents, such as “drastic” “blitz”; second is from non-spoken spoken, such as “be besgheying” and “rare and more strange” and so on. Most proverbs from the people can be “literate”, while those who come from the written literature need to understand the background of this idiom and grasp its meaning exactly.