混水摸魚
to fish in trouble water.
中文是說:有個漁夫在河里張網(wǎng)捕魚,他把魚網(wǎng)橫欄在河道里,然后拿了一條縛著石塊的繩子,不停的拍擊河水,使泥沙泛起,河水渾濁,魚兒在慌亂中紛紛自投羅網(wǎng),漁夫用這個方法捕得了好多魚.但住在附近的人指責(zé)漁夫說：“我們飲水全靠這條河,你把水搞得這么渾,叫我們到哪里去找清水飲用呢?”漁夫回答說：“可是,我若不把水搞渾,那就非餓死不可了.
There used to be a fisherman who was fishing with his fishnet in a river.He put his fishnet across the riverway and then flapped(slapped) the river water a rope.The rope was attached with a stone at the end in the water.The sediment was stirred up and the water got muddy,so the fish confusedly hurled themself willingly into the net one after another.The fisherman got so much fish in this way.However,the nearby inhabitants rebuked the fisherman:" We rely on the river for fresh drinking-water,and how can you make the water so muddy and where else can we get the clean water to drink?" The fisherman said helplessly:"But if I don't stir the water I would not get the fish and would be starved to death.