"May you live in interesting times" 是哪个汉语成语的英译？

有人接到Lehrer/McNeil Newshour的询问，想证实一下"May you live in interesting times"是否真是一句汉语成语翻译的。据 McNeil节目的新闻人员说，该成语是中国古代的一句骂人话。
不知各位能否给证实一下，找到汉语原文。

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断种绝代；断子绝孙？

Executive Summary:

愿你不得好生！不得好死！

WOW! 其实这句话负面的意义很轻，而且着重点在事不在人："Sigh! What 'interesting' or fast-changing and (therefore) unsavory times we're living in now!"

You are right.

"May you live..." and "Man waiting for roast duck.."

“守株待兔”也！It became a million other things after those comedian wannabes were done with it.

最好直接问Mike Chinnoy，此君似乎是这句中国成语的发明者。

完全同意！我也正想说这个呢。

妙，不妨向新华社推荐。假以时计，不容美国人不认帐。/NT

Here in Australia, people attribute anything cliche and ridiculous to

Yeah, there are too many such sayings on the net. But I thought you were the originator of your own citation.

You only thought half-truth :) Being a sexist Confucius Say the first one; being a non-feminist, I invented the second :)

I see. Thank you, my half-truth inventor!

但不明白什么叫“interesting times”，这个“interesting”到底是什么意思？

楼上laoliu、tian xin、the Yeti的理解是对的。

但我觉得大家都是猜的呀。还是觉得它是从“interesting condition”里借来的？

我已经发电邮给cnn.com问了, 不知他们会不会转给那小子.