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凿壁借光
中国西汉的时候，有个人叫做匡衡。匡衡年轻的时候十分好学，但是他家里很穷，买不起蜡烛。匡衡晚上想读书的时候，常常因为没有灯光而发愁 。邻居家有蜡烛，晚上会有亮光，但是亮光却照不到 他的家里。后来，他想了一个办法，就在墙壁上悄悄地凿了 一 个小孔，让隔壁人家的烛光 透过来 ，每天借着小孔中微弱的光线读书。就这样，他经常学到深夜，后来成了西汉著名的学者。
“凿壁借光”这个成语是说偷借邻居家的灯光读书。后来指在艰苦的条件下坚持刻苦学习。
Stealing the Light for Study by Making a Small Hole Secretly from Neighbor's Wall
In the Western Han Dynasty there was a Chinese man named Kuang Heng. Kuang Heng was born in a poor family, but he was diligent in his study. As his family was too poor to afford to buy a candle for him, he often felt sad when evening came. Every evening he could see the candle-light from his neighbor, but the light could not reach his home. Later, an idea came to him - to secretly make a small hole in the wall and let a glimmer of light come in through the hole. This stealing light allowed him to study until late at night. When he was grown up he became a very famous scholar in the Western Han Dynasty.
The idiom “Stealing the Light for Study by Making a Small Hole Secretly from Neighbor's Wall” means to study by the light of neighbor. Now it means study under a hard condition.
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