乾隆皇帝有个宠信的大臣,名叫和珅(shēn)。他才识平庸,却很能讨得皇帝的欢心,因而颇有权势。一天,他拿了自己义子的一篇文章,去给当时才高望重的李调元看,想得到李的褒赞。李调元看过后,就在文章的后面写了杜甫的《绝句》中的两句作为评语:“两个黄鹂鸣翠柳,一行白鹭上青天。” The emperor Qianlong had a favored minister called sh珅n. He only knew the mediocrity, but he was very able to discuss the emperor’s favor, and therefore quite powerful. One day, he took an article of his own son and went to see Li Tiao-yuan, who was highly respected at that time, and wanted to get Lee’s praise. After Li Tiaoyuan read it, he wrote two sentences in Du Fu’s “quatrains” at the back of the article as a comment: “Two yellow cicadas Cui Liu, and one line of egrets on the blue sky.”