| 釋義 |
一字千金yī zì qiān jīneach word worth a thousand pieces of gold—a highly finished literary product; a single word is of great consequence
? 呂不韋乃使其客人人著所聞，……號(hào)曰《呂氏春秋》。布咸陽(yáng)市門，懸千金其上，延諸侯游士賓客有能增損一字者予千金。(司馬遷《史記·呂不韋列傳》)Lu Buwei also made his guests record all their knowledge，…h(huán)e entitled it The Annals of Master Lu. It was displayed at the gate of Xianyang market,with a thousand pieces of gold hung above it. Itinerant scholars and proteges from other states were invited to read it,and the gold was offered to anyone who could add or subtract a single word.
? 這首詩(shī)真是精心佳作，說(shuō)是～也不為過(guò)。This poem is a highly finished literary product. It’s not going too far to say that each word worth a thousand pieces of gold. 一字千金yi zi qian jinone word is worth a thousand pieces of gold—excellent literary work or calligraphy 一字千金yī zì qiān jīn比喻文辭精妙，非常有價(jià)值。a single word is worth a thousand pieces of gold, a single word is of great consequence |