Chapter 29 Mice don't trust a hole

Dear Xiaowen: The English name of a mouse is mouse, most of which are mice, and the other kind is larger called rat, most of which are rats, and there are hundreds of kinds of mice.Rats have a very good appetite. They eat whatever people eat, and they also eat things that people don't eat, such as paste and soap.The reproduction of mice is very fast. A female mouse can give birth to a litter in less than a month, and each litter has four to seven pups. Among the pups, the female can grow up to be a mother in 45 days. Rats can live up to six years.Rats can swim, but don't like water.

Mice like to steal things, and the eyes of mice are called thievish eyes (thievish eyes), which are called "deep head mouse eyes" and "thievish eyes" in Chinese.People hate mice for stealing and biting things, so they beat them whenever they see them. There is a Chinese saying that goes, "When a mouse crosses the street, everyone shouts and beats it".People run away as soon as they hit a mouse, which is called "run away like rats". Rats are very timid, so the Chinese say "cowardly as a mouse", but in English they say "chicken or chicken-hearted".But the Chinese say "湿汤鸡", but the English say: "wet as a drowned rat" (wet as a drowned rat). ——If you are a mouse, I will be a chicken, and if you are a chicken, I will be a mouse. English is always awkward with Chinese.If you come back wet from the rain, you can say:

It rained cats and dogs and, look, I am wet as a drowned rat. When we say people are poor in English, we say "as poor as a church mouse". There is another sentence in English: A mouse doesnt trust to one hole. (A) Mice distrust a hole. It is the meaning of "Sly Rabbit Three Caves" in Chinese. It is said that before the ship sinks or the house collapses or catches fire, the mice in the boat or house will run away first.English is: The rats leave a sinking ship. The mouse leaves a sinking ship. When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. When a building is about to fall, all the mice forsake it.

From this phenomenon, another meaning is derived, that is, a guy who is unreliable in times of trouble is called a rat.This kind of person betrays others, the most abominable thing.A word close to this word is Judas (Judas), who betrayed his teacher Jesus.Others gave Judas 30 yuan (the amount could buy a slave at that time), but he regretted it later, so he gave up the money and hanged himself on a tree. This tree is called "Judas tree" "Yangsumu" onOthers bribed Judas because they couldn't recognize who Jesus was. Judas said that you can see who I kiss, so he gave Jesus a kiss. This kind of kiss is called "Judas kiss" (Judas kiss).It was a kiss that was very affectionate on the surface, but there was a conspiracy in the bottom of it.When the boss of the American underworld wants to kill someone, sometimes he will have a Judas kiss, so everyone is afraid of this kind of kiss.The genius Oscar Wilde I talked to you about in my father’s letter, there are poems written by people who always kill what they love, but

The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword!bold with a sword It is the allusion of Judas kissing Jesus. Although Rat betrays others, there are times when he is finished. Pour not water on a drowning Mouse. It is to persuade people to "don't pour water on the flooded mice", which also means "don't hit the dog in the water" in Chinese.But people always seem to like to beat the dog in the water. There are many such proverbs ① Add insult to injury ②Everyone pushes a falling fence. ③When the ox falls, they sharpen their knives. (When the ox falls, they all sharpen their knives.)

④When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet. ⑤Kick a man when hes down. (Kick him when he collapses.) Dad often said that English needs to be learned from a nest. The above are examples of learning from a nest. dad April 26, 1974 P.S. Just writing to you this week.Your letters and cards on the 11th and 17th were received today.According to legend, Methuselah lived to be 969 years old, and Adam lived to be 930 years old. The fraction of the age of the two old men is 39 years old.Dad spent his thirty-ninth birthday quietly yesterday. In one day, he read a biography and a script.