【发 音】hán dān xué bù
【解 释】邯郸：地名，战国时赵国都城，今河北省邯郸市，邯郸市是国家历史文化名城、中国优秀旅游城市、国家园林城市、全国双拥模范城、中国成语典故之都和中国散文之城、太极之乡。国务院批准具有地方立法权的“较大的市”和市区人口超百万的特大城市。邯郸市位于河北省的最南端，东临山东聊城，南邻河南安阳，西邻山西长治，北临河北沙河。
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步：行走，走路。 比喻模仿不成，反把自己原有的长处失去了。
从前有个人认为赵国的东西好，他认为连赵国人走路也很漂亮，便带上盘缠去邯郸学习怎样走路。学习一段时间之后，发现不但没有学会邯郸人走路，而且忘了以前自己是怎样走的，于是只好爬着回家去，看见的人哈哈大笑。
【出 处】1、庄周《庄子·秋水》：“子往乎！且子独不闻夫寿陵余子之学行于邯郸与？未得国能，又失其故行矣，直匍匐而归耳。”
2、昔有学步于邯郸者①，曾未得其仿佛②，又复失其故步③，遂匍匐而归耳④——《汉书》。
①昔（xī）——从前，过去。步——行走，走路。
②曾——这里相当于“乃”，意思同“却”。仿佛——大略、大概。
③故步——原来走路的步法。
④匍匐（pú fú）——爬行。
【用 法】偏正式；作谓语、宾语、分句；含贬义。
【示 例】清·李绿园《歧路灯》第101回：“盛希瑗道：'是～，失其故步幺？'”
半臂添寒尚书醉，屏后金钗楚楚，齐俯首～。（清·梁绍任《两般秋雨庵随笔》卷一）
【近义词】鹦鹉学舌、东施效颦、数典忘祖、寿陵失步。
【反义词】标新立异、独辟蹊径、择善而从。
【故事新编】相传在两千年前，燕国寿陵地方有一位少年，不知道姓啥叫啥，就叫他寿陵少年吧！
这位寿陵少年不愁吃不愁穿，论长相也算得上中等人材，可他就是缺乏自信心，经常无缘无故地感到事事不如人，低人一等——衣服是人家的好，饭菜是人家的香，站相坐相也是人家高雅。他见什么学什么，学一样丢一样，虽然花样翻新，却始终不能做好一件事，不知道自己该是什么模样。
家里的人劝他改一改这个毛病，他以为是家里人管得太多。亲戚、邻居们，说他是狗熊掰棒子，他也根本听不进去。日久天长，他竟怀疑自己该不该这样走路，越看越觉得自己走路的姿势太笨，太丑了。
有一天，他在路上碰到几个人说说笑笑，只听得有人说邯郸人走路姿势那叫美。他一听，对上了心病，急忙走上前去，想打听个明白。不料想，那几个人看见他，一阵大笑之后扬长而去。
邯郸人走路的姿势究竟怎样美呢？他怎么也想象不出来。这成了他的心病。终于有一天，他瞒着家人，跑到遥远的邯郸学走路去了。
一到邯郸，他感到处处新鲜，简直令人眼花缭乱。看到小孩走路，他觉得活泼、美，学；看见老人走路，他觉得稳重，学；看到妇女走路，摇摆多姿，学。就这样，不过半月光景，他连走路也不会了，路费也花光了，只好爬着回去了。
故事出自《庄子·秋水》。成语“邯郸学步”，比喻生搬硬套，机械地模仿别人，不但学不到别人的长处，反而会把自己的优点和本领也丢掉。
【提 示】勤于向别人学习是应该肯定的，但是，一定要从自己的实际出发，取人之长，补己之短。如果像燕国寿陵人那样，盲目鄙薄自己，一味崇拜别人，生搬硬套，亦步亦趋，结果必然是人家的优点没学来，自己的长处却丢光了。
【英文】Imitating Another without Success and Losing What Used to Be One's Own Ability
Tradition has it that more than 2,ooo years ago,there lived a young man in the Shouling area of the State of Yan.As his name is not known ,we just call him Shouling young man for convenience's sake.
self confident He was at a loss as to how to behave all the time.
His family members advised him to overcome this shortcoming,but he thought they were fond of poking their noses into his business and were unwilling to provide him with tuition fee.His relatives and neighbours sneered at him,saying that he would never be able to learn anything.Asthe days went by,he even began to doubt whether he should walk the way he did,for he felt more and more that his walking gestures were too clumsy and awkward.
One day,he met some people on the road who were chatting and laughing.One of them said that people in Handan walked most gracefully.And thatwas just what he was most concerned about,so he hurreed towards the mand wanted to make further inquiries.To his surprise,when these people saw him,they stalked off laughing.
He could not picture to himself in what way their walking gestures were graceful,no matter how hard he racked his parents one day.He went to Handanwhich was far away to learn how to walk.
As soon as he arrived in Handan,he was dazzled to find that everything was novel.He learned from the children there how to walk,because he thought that the children's walking gestures were lively and pleasing to the eye.He learnd from the old people there how to walk,because he thought the old people's walking gestures were steady .He learnd from the women there how to walk,because he thought the women' swaying walking gestures were beautiful.That being the case with him ,in less than half a month he even forgot how to walk.As he had already used up his traveling expenses,he had to crawl back home.
This story come from the article"Autumn Water"in The Works of Xhuang Zi(Zhuang Zi was a famous ancient Chinese philosopher of about 300B.c.).Later the set phrase"initating another without success and losing what used to be one's own ability"is used to refer to acts of copying others mechanisally in disregard of specififc conditions.
