Home Categories Essays Eighty letters from a father in prison to his daughter

Chapter 20 Broken pots have rotten stoves, Li Day has Mrs. Zhang

Dear Xiaowen: Have you ever played jack game with your kids? Jack is a fun word, and it can be found in many English words.Capitalized Jack is a person's name. There is an English idiom All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.This idiom has a history of more than 300 years. Jack refers to a man, and Jill (or Gill) refers to a woman.There is also an English idiom Every Jack has his Jill, which means in Chinese "everything has its own couple". jack-of-all-trades is Dr. Universal.know-it-all. Jack-of-trades and master of none are all jack-of-trades and master of none.Can do nothing.Nine out of ten skills are not good.

jack-of-all-trades and master of many is the all-powerful doctor.Everything works.Pay attention to the Franklin that Dad mentioned to you in the tenth and seventh letters last year, he is such a person. Jack-in-the-box box old man, a kind of toy, when the box is opened, a villain will jump out. jackleg lawyer badass lawyer. Jack rabbit long-eared long-legged rabbit, is a large hare (hare), only found in North America. Jack Sprat (from the nursery rhyme) is a dwarf, very fat.But his wife is very thin. The "jack" used when a car changes tires is also called jack or jackscrew.

A jack-o-lantern is a pumpkin lantern.Dig out a pumpkin with a human face and put a candle inside.Did you see it on Halloween?Halloween lanterns are because of the Irish legend that there was a man named Jack, who was too stingy to go to heaven; and because he was happy to find the devil, he couldn't go to hell, so he had to light a lantern and walk around on the ground, waiting for the final judgment. The Chinese have a saying that "there is no way to go to heaven and no way to go to earth", but there is no such story. dad February 22, 1974 Attachment: The pumpkin is called pumpkin. The Hiss espionage case revealed by President Nixon 24 years ago, the evidence is hidden in the pumpkin.

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