标题：按图索骥
成语资料
基本信息【成语形体】按图索骥  按图索骥图片
【汉语注音】àn tú suǒ jì
【成语释义】按照画像去寻求好马。比喻办事机械死板；也比喻按照线索去寻求，不懂得灵活变通。索，找；骥，良马。
【成语用法】作谓语、定语、状语；比喻做事拘泥教条，墨守成规。现在指顺着线索去寻找。
【感情色彩】褒贬两用
【语法结构】偏正式[1]
【相近词】照本宣科、生搬硬套、按部就班[2]
【反义词】不落窠臼、见机行事
【押韵词】东道之谊、敝盖不弃、沈声静气、焮天铄地、熏莸同器、两雄不并立、崇论谹议、回心转意、殷天震地、通都大邑
【灯 谜】悲鸿画马，伯乐来相（打一成语）
【歇后语】伯乐儿子找马
【出 处】东汉·班固《汉书·梅福传》成语辨析【辨音】 索；不能读作“sù”；骥；不能读作“yì”。
【辨形】 索；不能写作“素”；骥；不能写作“冀”。成语示例◎ 元·袁桷《清容居士集·示从子瑛》：“隔竹引龟心有想，按图索骥术难灵。”
◎ 明·赵汸《葬书问对》：“每见一班按图索骥者，多失于骊黄牝牡。”
◎ 明·杨慎《艺林伐山》：“……此所谓‘按图索骥’也。”
◎ 以“马克思主义为指导”，并不是说要照抄照搬书本上的具体条文，不是说要以本本为标准和规范，按图索骥，而是指把马克思主义基本原理与本国实际和时代特征紧密结合起来，在解决实践提出的新问题中坚持和发展马克思主义，推进我们的事业。
成语典故
原文伯乐《相马经》有“隆颡（sǎng）（1）蛈日（2），蹄如累麴（qū）（3）”之语，其子执《相马经》以求马，出见大蟾蜍，⑷谓其父曰：“⑸得一马，略与相同，但蹄不如累麴尔！”伯乐知其子之愚，但转怒为笑曰：“此马好跳，不堪⑹御⑺也。”注释（1）隆颡（sǎng）：高高的额头。  按图索骥图片
（2）跌日：眼睛鼓起，也有人认为是"跌目"。
（3）累麴（qū）：叠起来的酒药饼子。
⑷谓：告诉，对....说。
⑸得：找到，得到。
⑹ 堪 ：能够，可以。
⑺ 御 ：驾驭，控制。译文伯乐在他写的《相马经》书里有“额头高、眼睛亮、蹄子大”的说法。伯乐的儿子拿着《相马经》去认马。他看见一只癞蛤蟆，就去对父亲说：“我找到了一匹（千里）马，其他条件都符合，就是蹄子有点不够大。”他想。伯乐知道儿子很笨，给他气得笑了起来，说：“你抓的马太爱跳了，不能骑啊!”故事秦国有个人叫孙阳，他一眼就能认出好马和坏马，人们把他叫“伯乐”。伯乐把自己认马的本领都写到叫《相马经》的书里，画上了各种马的图。伯乐的儿子很笨，却希望自己也能像父亲那么厉害。伯乐的儿子把《相马经》背得很熟，以为自己也有了认马的本领。一天，伯乐的儿子在路边看见了一只癞蛤蟆。他想起书上说额头隆起、眼睛明亮、有四个大蹄子的就是好马。“这家伙的额头隆起来，眼睛又大又亮，不正是一匹千里马么?”他想。他非常高兴，把癞蛤蟆抓回了家，对伯乐说：“快看，我找到了一匹好马!”伯乐哭笑不得，只好说：“你抓的马太爱跳了，不好骑啊!”[3]​
英文解释
简明释义look for a noble steed to correspond with the one drawn；look for a steed with the aid of its picture -- try to locate sth. by following up a clue；follow up a clue to find sth.；follow up a lead to solve a problem；[4]​例句在天津的旅行很愉快，我花了两天时间游荡在充满欧洲风情的街道上，拿着老地图和老照片按图索骥。
Tianjin was a great trip; spent 2 days wandering the very european streets and tracing the history with old maps, photosetc. the restoration work around the parts of the old concessions was good to see.
在那个时代，人们普遍认为，有一种类型的人最适合担任经理人，因此，找出这类人的性格特质，然后按图索骥、寻找具有这类性格特质的管理者就成为企业界的关注重点。
In those days, people generally believe that there is one type of person best suited to serve as managers, therefore, tofind this type of personality traits, and then try to locate smth to find with this type of personality characteristics of businessmanagers has become the focus of attention.
简而言之，如果领导阶层先炮制了一个原景，然后再要求大家为这个原景而付出努力，那么他们就没法成功，因为公司面临的是适应性环境，不是技术性问题：领导人物指出公司的发展方向，人们就该按图索骥。
In short, the prevailing notion that leadership consists of having a vision and aligning people with that vision is bankruptbecause it continues to treat adaptive situations as if they were technical: the authority figure is supposed to divine wherethe company is going, and people are supposed to follow.
英文故事
Looking for a Steed with the Aid Of Its Picture 
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man in the State of Qin whose name was Sun Yang. Sun Yang was very expert in looking at horses and judging their worth. Whatever the horse might be, he could tell whether it was good or bad at first sight. People called him Bo Le (Bo Le was the name of one of the celestial bodies and was fabled to be in charge of heavenly steeds), and he was often asked to appraise and select horses. 
One day, when Sun Yang was passing a place, an old horse pulling acart loaded with salt suddenly neighed to him without stopping. He came near, and saw that it was a horse that really could cover a thousand Li a day, and that the only problem with it was that it was a little too old. The old horse was pulling the heavy cart with difficulties and hardships. Sun Yang felt acutely that the horse was really unjustly treated, for it might have been a fine steed galloping on the battlefield. It was a great pity that it was pulling the cart loaded with salt without attracting public attention, which had taken the edge off its spirit and consumed its energy. When he thought of this, he was so grieved that he shed tears. 
In order to help more people learn how to appraise horses so that fine horses which could cover a thousand LI a day would no longer fall into oblivion, and also in order to ensure that his unique skill in judging horses would not be lost, Sun Yang worte a book entitled The Art of Looking at Horses and Judging Their Worth, based on his experiences and knowledge accumulated over the years. The book was also illustrated with the pictures of various horses. 
Sun Yang had a son who, after reading his father's The Art of Looking at Horses and Judging Their Worth, thought it was very esay to appraise horses. So he took the book with him to look for fine horses everywhere. At first he searched according to the pictures in the book, and accomplished nothing. Then he searched according to the characteristics of a toad fit very well the characteristics described in the book. So he happily took the toad back home, and said to his father, "Father, I have found a horse that can cover a thousand Li a day, only its hoofs are not good enough." Looking at the toad, Sun Yang did not know whether he should laugh or cry. Knowing that his son was stupid, Sun Yang said humourously. "It's a pity that this horse is too fond of jumping to pull a cart." Then he sighed, "That is just what we call looking for a steed with the aid of its picture." 
Later, people have used the set phrase "look for a steed with the aid of its picture" to refer to handling affairs mechanically in the outmoded ways without being flexible. Somethimes it is also used to refer to trying to locate something by following up a clue. This set phrase originates in Lumbering in the Forest of Art written by Yang Shen in the Ming Dynasty （1368-1644）.
成语寓意
把癞蛤蟆误认为千里马，这是寓言作者的夸张。但是，在学习和工作中，死背教条，生搬硬套，以致闹出笑话，招致损失的事例，确实是经常见到的。前人传下来的书本知识，应该努力学习，虚心继承，但是，一定要注重实践，在实践中切实验证、牢固掌握，并加以发展，这才是正确的态度。”按图索骥”这句成语现在既用来比喻办事机械、死板，用于贬义词，也用来比喻按照线索寻找。后一种用法不含贬义。