生吞活剥 swallow raw
Explanation
生吞活剥比喻学习或接受事物时不加分析、理解，生硬地照搬照抄。
The idiom "生吞活剥" is used to describe the act of accepting or applying experience, theories, etc., without analysis or understanding, simply copying them blindly.
Origin Story
唐朝的时候，有一个叫张怀庆的人，他做官的地方叫做枣强。他这个人不学无术，却喜欢写诗，但自己又没有才华。于是他就喜欢把别人写好的诗拿来，生搬硬套地改成自己的诗。有一次，他把诗人王昌龄的五言诗，硬生生地改成了七言诗，还自以为很得意。别人看到他这样，就编了一句顺口溜来讽刺他：“活剥王昌龄，生吞郭正一。”这个顺口溜的意思就是说，张怀庆就像生吞活剥一样，把别人的诗拿来，不加修改地就拿来用，完全没有自己的风格。
During the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Zhang Huaiqing who was an official in Zaoqiang. He was uneducated and had no talent for writing, but he loved poetry. So he would take poems written by others and change them into his own poems without any understanding or adaptation. Once, he changed a five-line poem by the poet Wang Changling into a seven-line poem and was very proud of himself. People who saw this mocked him with a rhyming couplet: “活剥王昌龄, 生吞郭正一.” This means that Zhang Huaiqing was like swallowing raw meat, taking other people's poems and using them without any modification, completely lacking his own style.
Usage
这个成语用来形容学习或接受事物时不加分析、理解，生硬地照搬照抄的行为。
This idiom is used to describe the act of accepting or applying experience, theories, etc., without analysis or understanding, simply copying them blindly.
Examples
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他学习英语，总是生吞活剥地把语法规则背下来，不注重理解，所以掌握得不好。
tā xué xí yīng yǔ, zǒng shì shēng tūn huó bō de bǎ yǔ fǎ guī zé bèi xià lái, bù zhù zhòng lǐ jiě, suǒ yǐ zhàng wò de bù hǎo.
He learns English, always swallowing the grammar rules blindly, without paying attention to understanding, so he doesn't master it well.
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他学习西方文化，生吞活剥地照搬，没有结合中国实际，反而弄得四不像。
tā xué xí xī fāng wén huà, shēng tūn huó bō de zhào bān, méi yǒu jié hé zhōng guó shí jì, fǎn ér nòng de sì bù xiàng.
He learns Western culture, blindly copying it, without combining it with the Chinese reality, and instead makes it look like a mishmash.