Chapter 12 Tips for fighting tigers

Dear Xiaowen: Look how cute the two little tigers are in this picture.The white one is rare, worth ten thousand dollars, and the bigger it is, the more expensive it is.Tigers are only found in Asia, including India, China, Iran (the Tianfang mentioned to you in the letter on October 21), and Japan.Tigers can grow up to four or five hundred pounds. They can climb trees and swim. Although lions are the "king of beasts", experts say that tigers are more powerful than lions. Because the tiger is powerful, the Chinese say that the person who provokes the fierce is called "smooth the tiger's beard", while the Americans say "twist lions tail". The tiger is powerful, and if you provoke it, you will not be able to end the game, so there is an idiom in China that says "Riding a tiger is hard to get off" Once mounted it is hard to get off., also called "like riding on tiger". "It's easier to catch a tiger than to set it free." There is also a saying in English that says Supposing you miss your tiger, he is not likely to miss you. you).

Although it is dangerous to mess with a tiger, there are many things in the world that require risks to gain. As the Chinese saying goes, "If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get a tiger cub" ("If you don't go to the tiger's den, where can you find a cub?"), it is exactly the same as in English. venture, nothing have. The Chinese say that the tiger is so powerful that not only people are afraid of it, but ghosts are also afraid of it.There is a kind of ghost called "伥". In mythology, it is said that this kind of ghost is specially at the beck and call of tigers, so there is an idiom called "为白作伥", which means to help an evil person do evil (to help an evil person do evil).

When hunters hunt tigers, they often put themselves in a cage, and then tie the cage to the elephant's back, so that the tiger cannot bite him.There is a very interesting sentence in English: Those who go tiger hunting should remember that there are tigers and tigers. This does not mean "to fight tigers, remember that there are many tigers", but "to fight tigers, remember that there are all kinds of tigers. There are those who are easy to fight, and those who are difficult to fight." Only by not being sloppy in learning English can one learn English well. dad December 9, 1973