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Chapter 34 monkey face

Dear Xiaowen: English money is money; monkey is a monkey; monkery is a monk (life). In a Chinese fable, there is a man who raises monkeys called "Sniper". He said to the monkeys, I will give four fruits in the morning and three in the evening, and the monkeys are all angry; the man said, then I will give three in the morning and three at night. How about four?The monkeys were happy when they didn't learn arithmetic.Later, it became an idiom of "three in the morning and four in the evening". There are more than 200 kinds of monkeys. In Chinese, there are names such as "hozen", "macaque", "sniper" and "猱".Ask grandma to explain to you "monkey fast", "monkey spirit", "monkey anxious" and "monkey playing".

All monkeys can climb trees.Since it can climb, if you teach it how to climb, the Chinese idiom is called "teach monkeys to climb a tree", which means to encourage wicked people to do wicked things when translated into English. The smallest kind of monkey is only as big as a mouse, but the biggest one is called a baboon. The male weighs ninety pounds. -faced monkey). Monkeys have small spaces in their gills where they can hide food (They can carry food in pouches inside their cheeks.).A famous Chinese novel (there are four kinds of English translations, one of which is called Monkey) tells that Sun Wukong (the monkey becomes a spirit) stole the elixir and hid it in his cheek. Spit it out, and scold the Taishang Laojun Xiaojiazixiang.

The character of a monkey can be felt in many English sentences, probably all cunning, mischievous, mischievous, troublesome, mischievous, disturbing, disturbing, etc. are related to it: He is as trickery as a monkey. (He is as trickery as a monkey.) You little monkey! (You naughty kid!) All right, boys, no monkey business now. She made a monkey (out) of him in front of all his friends. (She made a fool of him in front of his friends.) He threw a monkey wrench into our plans. (He destroyed our plans.) monkey wrench is a live mouth wrench (adjustable wrench), is used to repair the machine, but not to repair, but throw it into (throw into) the machine , the machine will not be able to move, it is causing trouble.

Don't monkey with the buzz saw! (Circular saws are no joke! [Too dangerous to take lightly!]) Eisenhower (IKE) was a general and won battles.Another battle was supposed to be led by someone else, but President Franklin Roosevelt was afraid of disturbing a group of winning teams (dangerous to monkey with a winning team), so he let Eisenhower continue to command. Monkeys live in groups and can live for twenty or thirty years. dad June 23, 1974
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