《掩耳盗铃》出自《吕氏春秋·自知》，记载春秋末年晋国范氏家道败落，有人跑去他家想偷东西，看见一口大钟，想背走却太重搬不动，便想用锤子砸碎分批搬走，谁知一敲钟声巨响，他怕被人发现，情急之下捂住了自己的耳朵，心想自己听不见，别人应该也听不见。这个成语原本叫"掩耳盗钟"，"钟"是又大又重的青铜礼器，后来民间流传时才逐渐改成了更常见的"铃"字，才有了我们今天熟悉的说法。

"Covering One's Ears to Steal a Bell" comes from the "Self-Knowledge" chapter of Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals. It tells of a man in the declining household of the Fan clan in the late Spring and Autumn period, who broke in to steal something and spotted a large bronze bell — too heavy to carry off whole, so he decided to smash it into pieces with a hammer instead. But the very first strike rang out with a deafening clang, and in his panic he covered his own ears, reasoning that if he couldn't hear it, no one else could either. The idiom originally referred to a "zhong" — a large, heavy ceremonial bronze bell — but over time in popular usage it shifted to the more familiar word for a small hand bell, giving us the version we know today.

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