江郎才尽 [jiāng láng cái jìn]
1 原指南朝才子江淹后期才思衰竭一事,今喻文人的才华穷尽。
英 one's literary talent is at an ebb; have lost one's talent; one's inpiration has dried up;
1 同“江淹才尽”。
1 江郎,指南朝梁文人江淹。江郎才尽原指江淹少以诗文著称,独步当代。晚年时,偶憩于一亭中,梦见郭璞索还五色笔,自此江淹作诗绝无佳句。典出也作「江淹才尽」。
英语 Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom), fig. to have used up one's creative powers, to have writer's block