狼来了

狼來了

lángláile

phrase

Meanings

1 "The wolf is coming!"
2 the Chinese version of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
3 to cry wolf

Characters

(particle marking change)

Examples

他老是骗人，最后就成了狼来了的故事。

Tā lǎoshì piàn rén, zuìhòu jiù chéng le lángláile de gùshi.

He keeps lying, and in the end it became 'the boy who cried wolf.'

这个警报一直响，大家都当成狼来了。

Zhège jǐngbào yìzhí xiǎng, dàjiā dōu dàngchéng lángláile.

This alarm keeps going off, so everyone treats it like crying wolf.

小时候老师讲过狼来了的故事。

Xiǎoshíhou lǎoshī jiǎng guò lángláile de gùshi.

When I was little, the teacher told us the story of 'the wolf is coming.'

Tips

culture

Chinese rendering of Aesop's 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf.' Now a common idiom: saying 他在喊狼来了 means 'he's crying wolf.' Taught in primary school as a morality fable about honesty.

usage

Treated as a fixed noun phrase for the story (狼来了的故事) and as a verbal quote. When mocking someone's false alarms: 别喊狼来了 ('stop crying wolf').

Stroke Order

狼 láng

来 lái

了 le