成语故事:惊弓之鸟

（单词翻译:单击）

 In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king，“I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring.' When the king expressed doubt, Geng Lei pointed¹ his bow at a wild goose flying in the sky, twanged the bowstring, and the goose fell to the ground. Geng Lei said, “This goose has been hurt in the past. Hearing the twang of the bowstring, it assumed that it was doomed². So it simply gave up trying to live.”