Chapter 6 Just say "Open Sesame!"

Dear Xiaowen: How nice it is for your aunt to bake a cake for your birthday!The cake is called sponge cake, sponge is a sponge, the cake is fluffy, isn't it just like a sponge? Cake means cake. There is a kind of "cake walk" in the United States, and whoever performs best will give a piece of cake.There is an idiom called take the cake, how to use it, when my sister finishes her homework, ask her for advice. "You cannot have both" means You cannot eat your cake and have it. "Look at plums to quench thirst, draw cakes to satisfy hunger" is to gaze at plums to quench ones thirst, to sketch a cake to satisfy ones hunger.There is a story that when people are invited to dinner, the host just talks about the dishes one by one without actually serving them. This is called "a Barmecide feast" (a Barmecide feast), which also means "painting cakes to satisfy one's hunger".This story is from "Arabian Nights", Tianfang is now Iran. "Tianfang Yehui" is a storybook with more than a thousand years, it is very interesting, you should read it once.When grandma wrote to my uncle, I called him "Simba" at the beginning, which is "Sinbad" (Sinbad or Sindbad the Sailor) in "Arabian Nights", because my grandma wanted to call my uncle Qihang Yaodao, so this Call.This book also contains the story of the Chinese child Aladdin (Aladdin) magic lamp, as well as Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ail Baba and the Forty Thieves), as soon as they shouted the charm (charm) "open sesame!" (open sesame! ) (Sesame was passed from China to the United States via Mexico) and the door opened (if they live to this day, if they want to open the safe locked by Liu Gu, just shout "Open Sesame!") . The English name of "Arabian Nights" is "Arabian Nights" (Arabian Nights), also known as (The Thousand and One Nights). There are other things related to Arabia in English:

Arabic numerals, also called Arabic figures (Arabic numerals), are the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 you use in arithmetic (grandma said you are good at arithmetic, dad is very happy). Street Arab means the Arabs on the street, that is, the homeless children who steal and beg on the street. Arabian camel (Arabian camel) is also called dromedary, and the one with two peaks is called Bactrian camel.A camel can carry loads far (100 miles a day), but if you carry too much, the last straw will break it.There is an English adage called The last straw breaks the camels back.It means that the last small burden will bring down everything, small things will lead to big disasters, and everything should be done in moderation.Dear Xiaowen, do you like the "Taipei Night Tales" written by your father?

dad October 21, 1973