世博英语：“班门弄斧”的英语表达
上面这个由2100多块LED组成的鲁班锁，是山东馆的标志性符号。提及鲁班，大家都会想起那句俗语：鲁班面前耍大斧。其实在英语中同样有“班门弄斧”的说法，还很好玩呢：teach grandmother to suck eggs
Teaching grandmother to suck eggs is an English language saying, meaning that a person is giving advice to someone else about a subject that they already know about (and probably more than the first person)
这句很有意思的俗语是怎么来的呢？关于这个说法的出处，有很多不同的解释，有的说是来自漫画，有的说是从西班牙语翻译而来。在英国著名小说家Henry Fielding的那部Tom Jones中，就有用到这句话：
“I remember my old schoolmaster used often to say……that a child may sometimes teach his grandmother to suck eggs”
我记得我从前的校长经常说，小孩子总会不知天高地厚。
（本文由沪江原创，仅供腾讯世博英语专题独家转载）
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