英语成语故事:揠苗助长

揠苗助长这个成语，现在多写成“拔苗助长”，比喻违背事物发展的客观规律，急于求成，反而把事情弄糟。
Pulling Up Seedings to Help Them Grow
In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a farmer who was impatient by nature. He thought his rice shoots were growing too slowly, so he decided to help them by pulling them. One day at dusk, he went back home dog-tired and said to his family:”I helped the rice shoots grow today.” Hearing this, his son hurried to the field, only to find that all the plants had withered.
This idiom is now often written 拔苗助长 . It refers to spoiling things because of being over-anxious for results and ignoring the law of nature.