| 释义 |
始作俑者shǐ zuò yǒng zhěhe who first introduced the practice of burying wooden images (and later living-beings) with the dead — creator of a bad precedent
❍ ～，其无后乎。Cursed be he who first introduced the practice of burying wooden images with the dead.
❍ ～，其无后乎？为其象人而用之也，如之何其使斯民饥而死也？ (《孟子·梁惠王上》) Was he not without posterity who first made wooden images to bury with the dead? So he said,because that man made the semblances of men,and used them for thatpurpose: —what shall be thought of him who causes his people to die of hunger? 始作俑者creator(of a bad precedent);initiator of a chain of events 始作俑者shǐ zuò yǒnɡ zhě俑：古代用作陪葬的木偶或陶偶。开始发明用俑陪葬的人。比喻第一个开恶劣风气的人。the initiator of evil, creator of a bad precedent |