嗟来之食Food Handed Out in Contempt

Food Handed Out in Contempt（成语 嗟来之食 英文)


Now it happended that there was a great famine throughout the State of Qi. A man by the name of Qian Ao set up a charity kitchen on the roadside to feed the starving passers-by.

Then came a hungry man,trudging along in tattered shoes, with a sleeve raised to hide his face and eyes that looked vague and dim. With a bowl of food in his left hand soup in his right, Qian Ao shouted ,"Hey,come over and eat." The man opened wide his eyes and looked, then said:"I have never eaten 'any food handed out in contempt'. And just because of that, I am now a hungry man, as you see."

Hearing this, Qian Ao made an apology to him. But the man still refused to eat, and eventually he starved to death.


嗟来之食(chinese idioms)

春秋时齐国发生饥荒，黔敖准备了食物放在路边，等候饥民过来就给他吃。有一个饥民走来了，黔敖冲着他喊道：“嗟！来食！”那个饥民瞪着眼睛说：“我正因为不食嗟来之食才饿成这个样子。”尽管黔敖向他道歉，那饥民仍然坚决不吃，最后饿死了。

嗟来之食,指带有侮辱性的或不怀好意的施舍