关于父亲节的英语作文带翻译四篇 作文初一【最新20篇】

smile, how warm the word is! it can make anyone happy. and this happiness is from the bottom of heart.

it’s not like enthusiastic laughter, but just warm, makes your heart warm.

mother’s smile is like a spring wind, so gentle when you are sad, it can make you happy again; when you fail, it can make you stand up and work hard again; when you give up, it can make you try your best again…

smile, so easy, but also so useful.

| so, let’s learn to smile. everyone needs others’ smile. when we give others a smile, we will feel happy, too. and maybe next time, when you need a smile, the person who received your smile will give it to you.

let’s learn to smile often, i believe it can even make the whole warm. living with a smile, every day will be sunshine.

In recent years our life is becoming better andbetter. But our environment

is becoming worse and worse. It’s very bad for ourlife. Now many people have

air-conditioners and cars, they produce (give off )waste gas. More and more

trees are being cut down. There are so much sand onthe earth (leaving only sand

) . We often see factories pour waste into riversor lakes. Water in the river is

quite dirty. We haven’t enough clean water todrink in cities. Now we are in

danger. It’s very necessary and important toprotect the environment well. I

think if everyone tries his best to protect theenvironment, the world will

become much more beautiful , and our life will bebetter and better .

The Mid-Autumn Day

August 15th in Chinese Lunar Calendar is the Mid-Autumn Day. It is one of the most important traditional festivals in China.

On that day people usually go back home to have family reunion . Each family will have the members get together to have a big dinner. The most popular food is moon cakes. They are round and look like the moon.

The moon is the brightest this night. People eat the delicious food while they are enjoying a beautiful full moon in their yard. At this time, some old people would like to tell many past events and tell the children a story about the rabbit on the moon . The children really believe that there is a rabbit on the moon. They hope to go to the moon and have a look one day.

What a great festival!

中秋节

农历八月十五日是中秋节，在中国它是最重要的传统节日之一。

在那一天，人们通常回家与家人团聚，一家人聚在一起饱餐一顿。最流行的食品是月饼，它们圆圆的就像月亮。

中秋节晚上的月亮特别地圆。人们都在自家的院子里一边赏月一边吃着可口的月饼。这个时候 ，一些老人会讲述许多古老的故事，如月亮上的玉兔，孩子们信以为真，他们真想有一天登上月球看个究竟。

中秋是个美好的节日啊!

yesterday was fathers day。 i had planned to give my father a present。 but i didnt remember it until in the morning。it was too late to post a card to him。 so i decided to buy something。 when i was in the department store。 i found it was not easy for me to choose something right for him。

suddenly i got an idea。 i ran home and opened my computer。 i made a beautiful card and mailed him through the internet。 then i began to make supper。 when father came home， he was very glad to find a big meal on the table。 then i asked him to check his e-mail。 he was amazed to find a beautiful card in his e-mail-box。

what a wonderful surprise!

哲学家苏格拉底曾说：“世界上最快乐的事，莫过于为理想而奋斗”。每个人都有自己的理想，并一直朝着这个目标奋斗着，这的确是一件快乐的事。我也有我自己的理想--做一名英语翻译家。

你们一定想知道我为什么要做英语翻译家？因为我从小就喜欢英语。在我上幼儿园，第一次接触英语的时候，老师教我们读“apple苹果”，“banana香蕉”，老师怕我们不懂，还特意拿来香蕉，指着香蕉对我们说：“这是不是很像‘b’呢？上面瘦瘦的，下面胖胖的。一个个香蕉就成了banana，这样，香蕉的英语是不是很容易拼出来。”老师还教我们学了很多英语单词。从那以后，我就喜欢上了英语。

虽然这个理想对我来说是一件非常遥远的事情，但我愿意为这个理想而努力拼搏。每当我听到别人那一口流利的英语，我都非常羡慕，同时我的心灵也一样受到了鼓舞。我相信只要努力就一定可以做到。现在我会从身边的每一步开始做起，努力学好英语。我希望通过我的努力，可以实现我的梦想。

通向理想的道路是遥远的，艰辛的，但我坚信自己只要为理想奋斗，为理想拼搏，就一定能实现理想。

Today is my birthday and Im so excited about it. In the morning I put a note on the table for my mum and it said, "Today is my birthday, dont forget it!" At school, I got many gifts and cards from my classmates and had a lot of fun. But I was still expecting the birthday party after school.

When it was time to leave school I couldnt wait to go home. When I open the door, there wasnt anybody in the house. There was only a note that said, "Coming home late tonight,mum and dad. "I try to call them but there was no answer.I was so shocked,do they forget my birthday?How could this be! I was so sad that I couldnt eat anything. I just did my homework and waited for them.

And then,things changed completely. It was about time for dinner, my mother called and told me to go to the restanrant near our house. When I got there I couldnt believed my eyes. Everybody was there:my parents,my relatives, my friends and even my classmates. There was so many gifts and a big cake. What a surprising birthday party! We had a good time and it was the best birthday party ever.

今天是我的生日，我很兴奋。早上我把一张纸条放在桌子上对我的妈妈说，“今天是我的生日，别忘了它！”在学校里，我从我的同学那得到了许多礼物和卡片,我很开心。但我仍然期待放学后的生日晚会。

当放学的时候，我迫不及待的想回家。当我打开门的时候，没有人在房子里。只有一张纸条，说，“今晚会晚回家，妈妈和爸爸。”我试着打电话给他们，但没有人回答。我很震惊，他们忘了我的生日？怎么会是这样！我伤心的我不能吃下任何东西。我只是做了我的家庭作业，等他们。

然后，事情发生了变化。这是吃晚饭的时间了，我的母亲打电话告诉我去我家附近的餐馆。当我到那里的时候，我不能相信我的眼睛。大家都在那儿：我的父母，我的亲人，我的朋友和我的同学。有那么多的礼物和大蛋糕。多么令人惊喜的生日派对！我们都很开心，这是最好的生日晚会。

today is my grandpas birthday. our family went back to my grandpas home in the morning. we got together to have a big family dinner to celebrate his birthady. we bought a big birthday cake and gave some presents to my grandpa.

in the afternoon, we went to the park to go boating. we had a good time. my grandpa had a nice time on his birthday.

To the Spring Festival, every family beaming, reunion. The Spring Festival has many customs, such as: stick Spring Festival couplets, light firecrackers and eat dumplings and so on. Lets learn about understand them together!

Posted goalkeeper almost every family New Years day is this to do, there is an interesting myths and legends about stick keeper: according to legend, in ancient times there is a dragon king always want to steal to eat tribute of the jade emperor, the jade emperor discovered severely punish it, but the dragon king still often teach not to change, so the jade emperor let two strong god to watch over the door, dont let the dragon king to rock the boat. But both god and the rest of us want to go to bed rest. So the jade emperor wanted to a good way to stick two portraits of the gods on the door, so from then on the custom of stickers door god down from generation to generation.

In the north of our country have a custom, is to eat dumplings, dumplings homophonic "jiaozi", expressed the people to the more old hand, a desire for the New Year auspicious rich. While southerners like to eat dumplings in the annual morning, means that we in the New Year festive, reunion. People also like to call a "shepherds purse" eat vegetables and dumplings a, "shepherds purse" is referred to as "money" means in the New Year, also come true.

In the Spring Festival, we are more necessary to set off firecrackers to active the rejoiced at Chinese New Year atmosphere. Set off firecrackers in the folk has a legend: according to legend in ancient time, there was a monster named "year", every Spring Festival when they come out to scare people, so people will think of a way to, with bamboo tube light thrown at it, bamboo tube explosion made a lot of noise, scared away nian, the custom of setting off firecrackers is come down.

The custom of Spring Festival and many, many, it has enriched our knowledge, shortens the distance of people. It is the fine tradition of the Chinese nation, lets go to understand them!

春节到了，家家户户喜气洋洋，团团圆圆。春节有许多习俗，比如：贴春联，放鞭炮，吃饺子等等。让我们一起来了解了解它们吧!

贴门神这是几乎家家户户过年都要做的，关于贴门神还有一段有趣的神话传说：相传在古时候，有位龙王总想偷吃玉帝的贡品，玉帝发现后狠狠地惩罚了它，可龙王依然屡教不改，于是，玉帝让两位身强力壮的天神看守大门，不让龙王再来捣乱。可是两位天神和我们一样要睡觉休息。于是玉帝想了一个好办法，把两位天神的画像贴在门上，从此贴门神的习俗就这样代代流传。

在我国的北方有一种习俗，就是吃饺子，饺子的谐音即“交子”，表达了人们对更岁交子，对新的一年吉祥富裕的一种渴望。而南方人则喜欢在大年的早晨吃汤圆，意味着我们在新的一年里圆圆满满，团团圆圆。人们还喜欢把一种叫“荠菜”的蔬菜和汤圆一块吃，“荠菜”有被称作“聚财”意喻在新的一年招财进宝，心想事成。

春节里，我们更少不了要放鞭炮来活跃一下春节时欢欢喜喜的气氛了。放鞭炮在民间还有一个传说：相传在远古的时侯，有一只叫“年”的怪兽，每到春节的时候就出来吓唬人，于是人们就想了个办法，用竹筒点燃扔向它，竹筒爆炸后发出很大的声响，吓走了年兽，放鞭炮的习俗就这样流传下来了。

春节的习俗还有很多很多，它丰富了我们的知识，拉近了人们的距离。它是中华名族的优良传统，让我们一起去了解它们吧!

Class is over. The students are jumping with joy, just like runaway horses. Look, some of them have left their seats and begin to play noisily. They are laughing and screaming from time to time. Some don’t leave their seats.

They are making use of the short time to play games. Sometimes they argue so seriously and sometimes they appear so polite. Others are sitting in their seats, as if they are thinking of something. Now and then they will stop to watch what others are doing. What an active ten minutes’ break it is!

[Break Between Classes初一英语作文

My new teacher

The new semester has begun。 Every thing seems the same as before， except one thing。 That is our class has a new English teacher。 His name is Yang yang， but we always call his English name， Robert。 He is young and sunshine。 He just graduated from university。 His pronunciation is very good and I like his spoken English。 Robert is humorous and his class is interesting and lively。 Except for the textbook， he finds many other articles for class teaching， such as songs， movies and cartoons。 He says that we can learn more from what we are interested in。 I like this new teacher。

作文翻译：

新学期已经开始了。除了一件事以外，每一件事看起来都和原来一样。那就是我们班来了个新的英语老师。他的名字叫杨阳，但是我们经常叫他的英文名Robert。他年轻阳光，刚刚从大学毕业。他的发音很标准，我很喜欢他的口语。Robert很幽默，他的课堂生动有趣。除开课本，他还找了很多文章进行课堂教 学，比如歌曲，电影和卡通。他说我们可以从我们感兴趣的东西学到更多。我喜欢这位新老师。

This morning, my father took me to school by bike. I sat at the back of the bike, eating a banana. After I ate it up, I threw the skin onto the street randomly.

今天早晨，爸爸骑车带我去上学。我坐在后车座上，吃着香蕉。吃完后，我顺手将香蕉皮扔到了街上。

No sooner had I done this than I realized that I had done something bad to our environment. And maybe someone would step on it and tumble over. I must pick it up. Thinking of these, I asked father to stop. I jumped off the bike and ran back to pick up the banana skin and threw it into a roadside dustbin. Seeing this, father praised me and I felt very happy.

我马上意识到我的所作所为破坏了我们的环境，或许有人会踩在上面而跌倒，我必须把它拾起来。想到这些，我让爸爸停车。我跳下自行车，跑回去拾起香蕉皮，并扔到了路边的垃圾箱里。看到这些，爸爸表扬了我。我感到很高兴。

In future I will protect the surroundings more consciously and think more about others.

将来我要更自觉地保护周围的环境，更多地为他人着想。

Recently I have seen such a story, the story on the way to save a giant snake women in banda aceh in Indonesias aceh province provincial capital, a woman under the guidance of a serpent, arrived in safety. 26-year-old woman riza said, on December 26, 2004, she lives in a village was flooded with waves, panic in the people running for their lives.

At this time, a female neighbor because of badly wounded, riza, please take your a pair of twins, she then back up the twins. To fight with in the jet stream, she saw a big snake down the flood from the left to swim, she is just like the serpent has been to swim, the results arrived in a safe place. After the event, riza said: "very strange when meet the serpent, I do not feel panic." Moreover, the serpent did not bite them.

Yes, as long as we treat animals, animals will be kind to you, but if you hurt the animals, which hurt just dont know is you a person but a human. In recent years my human destruction of the food chain, all the time and so many animals die because we humans, spirited, extinction. Some even have some rare animals fur to make clothes for money! Some people regard animals as the experiment, according to statistics, there are 2.5 million animals die each year from drug test, in this world, animals are used in shampoo, cosmetics, cancer drug test, although it is not the same with animals, but people and animals have the same right to life, they also have a desire to survive, so human cant go to such a large number of experimenting on animals. Now so many animals came to attack us, because we damage to them, so want to animals will also be kind to you, you will be kind to animals.

最近我看到过一个这样的故事，这个故事讲着一条巨蛇引路救妇女是在在印尼亚齐省省会班达亚齐，一名女子在一条大蛇的指引下，抵达安全地点。26岁女子丽扎说，2004年12月26日，她住的村落被巨浪淹没，慌乱中人们纷纷逃命。

这时，一名女邻居因为受了重伤，请丽扎带自己的一对双胞胎逃生，她于是背起了双胞胎。在与急流搏斗时，她看见一条大蛇从左侧顺着洪流游去，她就跟大蛇一直游，结果抵达了安全的地方。事后，丽扎说："很奇怪，当时见到大蛇，我并不感到惊慌。"而且，大蛇也没有咬她们。

是啊，只要我们善待动物，那么动物也会善待你，但如果你伤害了动物，哪受伤害的就不知是你一个人而是人类。就在近些年来我人类时时刻刻都在破坏着生物链，而因此许多动物都因为我们人类的搏杀而死亡、灭绝。甚至有些人为了钱把一些珍稀动物的皮毛做成衣服!还有些人把动物当成了实验品，据统计每年有250万的动物死于药物试验，在这个世界，动物们被用于洗发水，化妆品，癌症药品的试验，人虽然与动物是不相同的，但人与动物却有着相同的生存权利，它们也有求生的欲望，所以人类不能去这样大量的用动物做试验。现在之所以这么多的动物都来攻击我们，是因为我们对他们的破坏，所以要想动物也会善待你，你就要善待动物。

My favorite holiday has a lot of, have tomb sweeping day, Dragon Boat Festival, childrens day, the Mid-Autumn festival, but my favorite is the Spring Festival.

"Clicks" firecrackers on New Years eve, the street, the sky flashing dazzling spark, every household lights, the window of golden yellow, yellow-green, in combustion and off gradually, flowers, seemed to open the TV at the same time, in the play the wonderful show.

I stood on the sixth floor of the balcony, look, the New Years eve the night sky is bright, many colorful fireworks shining in the sky, sometimes like to live the day cage with, often is exploded here, before falling again raised a few, and then blasted, rise again... Some fireworks at lightning speed, ten 10 to move in the air, pour down, as if the next beautiful meteor shower, is like a big waterfall, also really a little "plunges three thousand feet" feeling! My mood is particularly bright and clear, this is "firecracker sound bowed out, every family to meet the New Year".

我喜欢的节日有很多，有清明节、有端午节、有儿童节、有中秋节，但我最喜欢的就是春节了。

除夕夜，街上“劈劈啪啪”的鞭炮声接连不断，空中闪烁着耀眼的火花，家家户户灯火通明，金黄色、黄绿色的窗户，在忽明忽暗、忽燃忽灭花中，好象同时打开的电视机，在播放精彩的节目。

我站在六楼的阳台上，放眼望去，除夕夜晚的天空格外亮，许多色彩缤纷的烟花在天空中闪亮着，有的时候好像还要把天笼照住似的，常常是这里炸开了，还没等落下就又升起了几个，然后再炸开、再升起……有的烟花以闪电般的速度，十个十个的往上蹿，在空中炸开，倾泻而下，好像在下一场美丽的流星雨，又好似一条大瀑布，还真有点“飞流直下三千尺”的感觉呢!我的心情格外爽朗，这真是“爆竹声声辞旧岁，家家户户迎新春”。

Winter holiday in the beginning, I was planning to do a rich and colorful, happy holiday.

Winter vacation started, I cant often meet with good friends, I will apply for a QQ number online, has also established their own space, make a dynamic photo album, it has more than 20 my photo. I also set up a study group, winter vacation several of my good friends came to my space. I chat with friends on the net, communication QQ pets experience, learning methods, compare to see who the homework quickly and well, reading experience exchange, etc.

When heavy snow outside, cant go out, I depend on the heating swim in the ocean of knowledge, what is "how the steel was tempered", "lubin sun Crusoe, Pinocchio, etc, all became my good friends. With the characters in the story I happy together, sad, touched, together with anger. Stories like mystery, holding me uncover its LIDS.

Winter vacation the most happy is the New Year. Put on new clothes, eat the rich fruit, dinner, put the firecrackers, receive a red envelope, free to play, my birthday is on annual lunar calendar, in particular, our whole family together to eat birthday cake, blow the birthday candles, wish me happy growth.

Now, the year to the end, my new semester begins.

寒假一开始，我就计划着怎么过一个丰富多彩、快乐的假期。

寒假开始了，我跟好朋友们不能常常见面，我就在网上申请了QQ号，还建立了自己的空间，制作了动感影集，里面有我20多张照片。我还成立了一个寒假学习小组，我的几个好朋友都来过我的空间。在网上我跟好朋友聊天，交流养QQ宠物经验、学习的方法，比一比看谁的作业写得又快又好，交流读书心得等。

当外面下大雪，不能出门的时候，我靠在暖气上在知识的海洋里畅游，什么《钢铁是怎样炼成的》、《鲁滨孙漂流记》、《木偶奇遇记》等，全成了我的好朋友。我随着故事中的人物一起开心，一起伤心，一起感动，一起愤怒。一个个故事就像一个个谜，牵着我揭开它的盖头。

寒假里最快乐的莫过于过年了。穿上崭新的衣服，吃丰富的水果、大餐，放花炮、收红包、尽情地玩，尤其是我的生日在大年初二，我们全家在一起吃生日蛋糕，吹生日蜡烛，祝愿我快乐成长。

一转眼，年要过完了，我的新学期也就开始了。

In this chapter of the novel,Jane met her new friend-Helen.What Helen said really impressed me a lot,driving me think deeply.

“Life is too short to hate other people.We all have faults,but when we die,only the pure flame of the spirt will be left.Thats why I never think of revenge,I never consider life unfair.I live in calm,looking forward to the end."

Honesly speaking,I complained about my life or people around me now and again,wodering why it was always unfair to me.However,think it over,I shouldt have been so mean.Time flies.We need to expand the width of life instead of wasting time to think about something meaningless.

导语：从小到大，我们有很多老师，你最喜欢的老师是哪个呢?下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Miss Li is my Chinese teacher . She is about thirty years old . She is very pretty and young . Her hair is brown and curly .

Miss Li always wears a blue coat . I think her favourite colour will be blue .

Miss Li is very friendly and kindly .Her classes are very interesting ,we all like to have Chinese class .

She always smiles when she speak to us .Sometimes she is very strict with us,when we make a mistake,she often makes us stand up .

Miss Li often sticks to have lessons when she is ill , She looked weak,but still beautiful .

Miss Li love us very much, she teaches us so carefully .I think she is a good teacher. We all love her,too .

I think teachers are like candles , giving off light for others by burning themselves 。

英语作文翻译：

李小姐是我的语文老师。她大约三十岁。她非常漂亮和年轻。她的头发是棕色卷曲的。

李小姐总是穿着一件蓝色的外套。我认为她最喜欢的颜色是蓝色。

李老师很友好，很和蔼，她的课很有趣，我们都喜欢上语文课。

她和我们说话时总是面带微笑，有时她对我们要求很严格，当我们犯错时，她经常让我们站起来。

李小姐生病的时候经常坚持上课，她看上去很虚弱，但仍然很漂亮。

李老师非常爱我们，她教我们很认真，我认为她是个好老师。我们都爱她，太。

我认为教师就像蜡烛，燃烧自己照亮别人。

Nowadays, with the improvement of the people’s living standard, some people form a habit of raising small or domestic animals as pets. Some raise small dogs or cats as their pets while others raise various birds or fishes as their pets. There are still even some people raising snakes and other unusual animals as their pets.

Does anyone have the same opinion of raising animals as pets? No, some people object to the idea of raising animals as pets. To them, animals have their own right to live a natural life like human beings. On the other hand, the way people raise animals as pets have a negative influence on the surroundings such as dogs’ barking at midnight, dogs’ chasing people on the street and so on. What’s more, some animals will transmit some diseases.

In my opinion, I do not like the idea to raise animals at pets. Animals have their own right to lead a life as they like. We should not deprive them of their natural right. In this way, we will live in a peaceful world in harmony with the other living creatures.

如今，随着人们生活水平的提高，有些人养成了饲养小动物或家畜作为宠物的习惯。一些养小狗或猫作为他们的宠物，而其他人饲养各种鸟类或鱼类作为他们的宠物。甚至还有一些人饲养蛇和其他不寻常的动物作为他们的宠物。

任何人都有相同的意见，饲养动物作为宠物吗?不，有些人反对将动物作为宠物饲养。对他们，动物有他们自己的权利，生活像人类一样自然。另一方面，人们饲养动物作为宠物的方式对环境有负面影响，如狗的叫声在半夜，狗追逐人在街上等。更甚的是，有些动物会传播某些疾病。

在我看来，我不喜欢养宠物。动物有他们自己的权利，过他们喜欢的生活。我们不应该剥夺他们的自然权利。这样，我们将生活在一个和平的世界中，与其他生物和谐相处。

[动物英语作文带翻译

Hello!I am a girl,My name is Zheng jingyi,I’m 12 years old,I come from Zhangzhou,I’m in Class 2,Grade 7.My telephone number is 123456789.I have long hair,big eyes,small nose and small mouth.Look!Who is she?She is my good friend,her name is Chen han,she is 12,too.She is from Zhangzhou,too.She is 14 years old,she is in Class 3,Grade 7,She telephone number is 987654321.She has short hair,big eyes,small nose and wide mouth.We are in the same school,but in different Classes.

I want to be ateacher in the future, because I think teacher is a good job.

My teachers arevery good. Some of them are gentle, but some of them are not. But

I think theyall care for students very much. I want to be a good teacher like

them. I thinkI will be strict to my students in the class. But after class, I

want to betheir friend and help them in study and life. Besides, it can help me

to keep ayoung heart to stay with young students. I must work hard for my

dream.

将来我想成为一名老师，因为我觉得老师是一份好工作。我的老师都很优秀，他们有的温柔，但有的不是这样。但是，我觉得他们都很关心学生。我想成为和他们一样的好老师。我认为在课堂上我会对学生严厉，但是课后我想成为他们的朋友，在生活和学习上帮助他们。除此之外，与年轻的学生呆在一起能够使我保持年轻的心态。我一定要努力实现我的梦想。

Wed. ,Feb. 3 clear

Movies

Today was very clear with no wind.

I practiced basktball in the morning. Then I went to the movies with Sandy. We saw White Nights. It was a very nice movie!I liked "Say you,say me"best of all the songs. Im fond of seeing musicals. The dancing is very beautiful and the music is pretty.

二月三日 星期三 晴

电影

今天是晴空万里，没有风的日子。

早上我练习篮球，然后和珊蒂一起去看电影，它真是一部相当好的的片子。 所有歌曲中我最喜欢"说你，说我"。 我喜欢卡们歌舞片，舞蹈十分美妙，而音乐也很好听。

Ji Anlived at the time of Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D.24). He was respected for being upright and just and for daring to speak the truth. He did not bother about amall matters in personal behaviour and in being an official. He was particular about actual effects and ,although he did not cause a stir ,he could keep the prefecture he governed in perfect order. Because of this. the imperial court transferred him to the central government from being the perfect of the Donghai Prefecture to being a commander in charge of the appointment and dismissal of the local officals.

Once,Emperor Wudi said that he would implement the policy of benevolence and justice of Confucianism and would do good turns to the people.Emperor Wudi Had hardly finished his remards when Ji An said that there was no need for the emperor to say so.Why should the emperor bother,Ji An said, about pretending to implement the policy of benevolence and justice since he was so greedy and avaricious within himself? This choked the emperor off. The emperor suddenly Changed his countenance and declared the meeting over. All the civilian and military officers at court were breathless with anxiety for fear that Ji An might bring disaster upon himself because of this. After returning, Emperor Wudi said to the people around him that Ji An was a little too rude and too straightforward.

For this reason ,Ji An was never promoted again. When he was the commander in charge of the appointment and dismissal of the local officials, both Gongsun Hong and Zhang Tang were low -ranking lfficials of little importance. Later ,they were promoted continuously. Gongsun Hong became the prime minister and Zhang Tang became the imperial censor. However, JiAns post remained thesame. One day, Ji An said to Emperor Wudi that the way the emperor used his ministers was just like piling up firewood, which meant that the latecomers surpassed the old-timers. Of course, Emperor Wudi could see that Ji An was complaining. So,turning to his ministers, Emperor Wudi said, "It is true that no one can stop learning.You see, Ji An is making more and more indiscreet remarks."

This story comes from The Historical Records. Later generations use the set phrase "the latecomers surpass the old-timers " to indicate that successors can cxcel the predecessors, which is quite different from the original idea when Ji An said that the latecomers surpassed the old-timers.

汲黯是西汉武帝时代人，以刚直正义、敢讲真话而受人尊重。他为人和做官都不拘小节，讲求实效。虽然表面上不那么轰轰烈烈，却能把一个郡治理得井井有条，因此，朝廷把他从东海太守调到朝廷当主爵都尉——一种主管地方吏任免的官职。

有一次，汉武帝说要实行儒家的仁义之政，为老百姓办好事了。没等皇帝把话说完，汲黯就说：“陛下内心里那么贪婪多欲，表面上却要装得实行仁政，这是何苦呢？”一句话把皇帝噎了回去。汉武帝登时脸色大变，宣布罢朝，满朝文武都为汲黯捏着一把汗，担心他会因此招来大祸。武帝回到宫里以后，对身边的人说，汲黯这个人也未免太粗太直了。

从此以后，汲黯的官职再也没有提升。他当主爵都尉的时候，公孙弘、张汤都还是不起眼的小官，后来，他们一个劲儿住上升，公孙弘当上了丞相，张汤做上了御史大夫，可他汲黯还蹲在原地没动窝。有一天，汲黯对武帝说，陛下使用群臣，跟码劈柴一样，是“后来者居上”啊！汉武帝当然听得出这是发牢骚。于是，转脸对臣下们说：“人真是不能不学习啊！你们听汲黯说话，越来越离谱了！”

故事出自《史记汲郑列传》。成语“后来居上”，往往指后起的可以胜过先前的。和汲黯说这话的原意，大不相同。