Chapter 16 If you kill a goose, I will kill a chicken

Dear Xiaowen: In Chinese, it is said that people walk slowly and swayingly, which is called "goose walk and duck step". In English, goose walk is described as the "goose step" taken by the army during inspection - goose step, and in Chinese it is called cold The "goose bumps" that arise when you are scared or disgusted are called "goose flesh" in English - you chicken and I will goose, and English and Chinese are messing up again. There is a story in Aesop's fables that a man had a goose that could lay golden eggs, but only one was born every day. The man thought the birth was slow, so he killed the goose with a knife to get the eggs. As a result, the goose died and the eggs were gone. , this story is written by people who are stupid and greedy.From this story comes an English idiom called

Do not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. It means "don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs", "don't cut off the money", "don't cut down the money tree".In Chinese, there is also a saying "to kill the hen to eggs" (to kill the hen to eggs), which coincides with English - if you kill the goose, I will kill the chicken. This time, it is Chinese and English who are making trouble. Since the goose is killed, it can be cooked and eaten. In English, "cooked his goose" means "he is finished" (reputation ruined, plan collapsed, opportunity lost, etc.). His goose was cooked when they found the stolen gems in his pocket. (When they found the stolen gems in his pocket, he was finished.)

Goose egg, which is zero points, is also called duck-egg, which means "eat duck eggs" in Chinese. To call someone stupid, use a goose. as silly as goose (stupid like a goose), He is quite a goose. (He is a dork). The scolding man dared not even say "Bah!" to the goose. unable to say “bo” to a goose. The fountain pen was first cut with goose feathers, called the goose quill, which has a history of two thousand years. The pen in Latin is penna, which means feather feather."Thousands of miles sending goose feathers" in Chinese means that the gift is light and the meaning is heavy.

dad January 26, 1974 Attachment: Received the letter from you and grandma on the 9th and 10th.Received on the 21st, due to the old year, received faster.