Chapter 33 Who will be the first to die

Dear Xiaowen: Do you remember the "egghead" that Dad mentioned to you in his letter on November 4th last year?Eggheads are—bookworms. This kind of people call Elizabeth Taylor Mrs. Richard Burton (one who calls Elizabeth Taylor Mrs. Richard Burton). Eggs are called eggs in Chinese classical Chinese, eggs are called chicken eggs, duck eggs are called duck eggs, but bastard eggs are not called bastard eggs, they can be called bastard lambs, which is quite similar to the English SOB.A bastard can't be called a bastard, but it can be called a jerk, which is equivalent to English nuts.When American General Mc Auliffe was besieged during World War II, the German commander asked him to surrender. His reply was very simple:

To the German Commander: (German Commander:) Nuts! (Asshole! Fuck you!) The American Commander There is an idiom in Chinese, "Under the overturned nest, there are complete eggs", which should be translated into English as When the nest falls, there are mo whole eggs.There is also an idiom in Chinese, "strike a stone with an egg", and its equivalent in English is: If the stone falls on the pot, woe to the pot; (The stone falls on the pot, the pot is over;) If the pot falls on the stone, woe to the pot. (The pot falls on the stone, the pot is over.) There is another sentence:

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife the melon suffers. Dad translated this sentence into a tongue twister: Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon falls on the knife, the melon is always finished when it is dropped. There is a story that a girl was walking on the road with a basket of eggs on her head, thinking that the egg would lay the chicken, the chicken would lay the egg, the egg would lay the chicken, the chicken would lay the egg, the egg would lay the chicken, and the chicken would lay the egg. ...the more you count, the more money you make.Suddenly, accidentally, the basket fell and the eggs broke.Therefore, there is an idiom in English that advises people to be steady:

Dont venture all your eggs in one basket. (Don't venture all your eggs in one basket.) In children's books, you will see a "Mr. Egg" named Humpty Dumpty, and there is a nursery rhyme written by him—— HUMPTY DUMPTY "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; Not all the kings horses nor all the kings men Could set Humpty Dumpty up again." dad June 14, 1974 Attachment: Because Uncle Ding is urging him to send money, he will not write a letter to grandma this week. On grandma's birthday, you have to send her a card on behalf of dad.But you pay for it out of your own pocket.

In American slang, a man who dates his girlfriend but expects her to pay for it herself is called an egg. To Liugu: Question: The mother-in-law is anxious to have a grandson, but the daughter-in-law keeps giving birth to girls. Should the mother-in-law blame her daughter-in-law or her son? Answer: Among the children, if the father gets the Y chromosome, it will be a boy; if the father gets the X chromosome, it will be a girl, that is, the sex of the child is determined by the chromosome X or Y obtained by the father, so if the daughter-in-law conjointly Girl, mother-in-law should blame her son, not daughter-in-law.