《欣欣向荣》成语英译与典故

七十九、欣欣向荣

陶渊明是东晋末年的大诗人，

他写的田园诗篇很出名。

晋安帝文熙元年十一月，

陶渊明正在彭泽县衙中。

做官已经有三月，

经常气得肚子疼。

他看不惯官场那一套，

上司来他耻于去接迎。

他不愿同流合污混在浊世，

时刻想辞掉这小县令。

这一天天气十分好，

他坐上了小船便启程。

把那颗象征生杀予夺权的铜官印，

端端地放在书房中。

没啥行李与财物，

来时空空去也空。

船儿顺风跑得快，

不觉半天到家中。

归家后写了一首诗，

《归去来辞》是诗名。

诗中写热爱人民和自然，

流露着思念田园的真感情。

诗中写有人告诉他，

开春的田野正春耕。

他也欣然同前往，

看不够欣欣向荣春日景。

万象更新花草茂，

万木欣欣正向荣。

到后来“欣欣向荣”作成语，

常用它把草木的生机来形容。

也可以用来作比喻，

喻事业昌盛和繁荣。

All Is Thriving

Tao Yuanming was a very famous poet in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty（317—420A.D.）.He was well⁃known for his idylls.In the 11th month of the first year of Emperor Jin An，Wenxi，when Tao Yuanming was head of Pengze County，he had been in his post for just three months，and it frequently made him sick in the stomach.He didn't appreciate the way other of⁃ficials performed，and he felt ashamed to receive his superiors.He couldn't float with the indecent tide of the society，thinking all the time to quit the post.

One day the weather was very fine，and he made his voyage on a little boat.The copper official seal，which bore authoritative power，was lying peacefully in his study and he didn't take much of his luggage，lightly he came and lightly he went.The boat moved very fast before the wind，and he reached home in half a day before he realized it.

He wrote a poem after he got home，and“Retur⁃ning Home”was its title.In the poem he depicted his love for the people and the nature，showing nostalgia and the pastoral emotions.In the poem he said that he was told，that the farmers were ploughing the present spring season.He went ecstatically with them to the fields，enjoying the thriving scenery of the spring flowers and grass engendered with 10 thousand living things，10 thousand trees are merrily shooting.

Later“All is thriving”became an idiom，it means the grass or the trees are energetically growing.It can also be figuratively used，to denote something is prosperous.