Chapter 4 Goodbye, crocodile!

Dear Xiaowen: There is a big ugly reptile called crocodile, which can eat people and live to be more than sixty years old. It is found in China, the United States, and Africa.They always lie in shallow water with their eyes above the water, waiting for an opportunity to open their mouths to bite.But there is a strange thing, the strength of its mouth is all in the muscles of the jaw, so it has to open its mouth wide to bite down to be strong. If it doesn't open its mouth at all, it has nothing to do.Although crocodiles can eat people, if people wrap their arms around their sharp beaks before they open their mouths, the crocodiles will not be able to shed tears.

"Crocodile tears" (crocodile tears) means "cat cry mouse" (false compassion) in Chinese.Because it is said that a crocodile cries when it eats the animal it kills. Don't shed crocodile tears over his leaving, I know very well that you are glad to see him go. (Don't pretend to cry when he's gone, I know you're happy to see him go.) There is also an English word for fake crying, which is "onion", because people who rub their eyes with onions will be hot to tears, but this is the usage in Shakespeare's play, which is very old. When you say good-by to your children, you can say:

See you later, alligator. (Goodbye, alligator!) The use of alligator here is not a curse, but a homonym. American proverbs refer to crocodile as croc, and alligator as gator or gater. The female alligator (the female alligator) always buries her eggs in the sand, and when the baby alligators hatch, they will cry, and the female alligator will dig them out from the sand. Alligator skin can be used to make leather shoes, and spices can also be made from crocodiles. Of course, crocodiles cannot be kept at home. Dorothy Parker, a female writer in the United States, raised two in the bathtub. When she went home and saw that the old lady had disappeared—she was scared away.

In ancient China, a writer named Han Yu, who was an official in Guangdong, bought a sheep and a pig to a group of crocodiles, and wrote an article "Writing to Crocodiles" to warn them, telling them to "lead the ugly people to the sea"! (Take your ugly bastards and move south to the sea!) What fun you say this nerd! The crocodile bird (crocodile bird) mixes and eats around the crocodile. You can reread the meaning of "becoming a tiger" that Dad wrote to you before. dad May 3, 1973