佛源成語生成與演變的一種方式——以“飛蛾投火”爲例

A Way of Formation and Evolution concerning Buddha Source Idiom:Take "Fei E Tou Huo"(飛蛾投火) as an Example

追溯成語的發展演變歷史,理清成語的發展綫索,探討成語發展演變規律、動因和機制是漢語詞彙史研究的一項重要工作。'飛蛾投火'源於佛教比喻説理,早期漢譯佛經中有多種比喻表達式,産生了衆多變體。受韻律和雙音化等因素的影響,這些比喻表達式最終凝固爲漢語常用成語,衍生了一些新用法。

It is an important task for Chinese lexical history research to trace the development and evolution history,sort out the development clue as well as explore the evolution law,motivation and mechanism of idioms.The idiom" Fei E Tuo Huo"(飛 蛾 投 火)originated from analogy reasoning of Buddhist,there are many figurative expressions and variants in the early Chinese translated Buddhist sutras.Being affected by factors such as rhythm and the bisyllablization of vocabulary,those figurative expressions finally lexicalized a commonly used idiom,producing some new usages.