Chapter 37 Not a donkey not a horse

Dear Xiaowen: The Hader couple in the United States often draw illustrations for children's books. Look at the picture they drew of riding a donkey. The little donkey is so cute!The donkey is called ass, also called donkey. Ass is more formal. In the Bible and in zoology, ass is used. Both words are used to call "fool", "fool" and "stupid". , using donkey has a deeper meaning, and it has the taste of "being cute" or "being unbearable". The Chinese idiom "riding a donkey to find a donkey" means looking for donkey on donkey back, which means looking for a donkey on the back of a donkey, forgetting what you are doing, and it means "absent-minded".

But in Chinese, "riding a horse to find a horse" has another meaning, which means to find a place first and then find a better one. If the teacher asks a question, the student's answer is irrelevant to the question, that is, "the answer is not what the question asked", that is, "the donkey's lips are wrong with the horse's mouth".This is just a special usage in Chinese, not in English. There is a Chinese saying "donkey year horse month", because there is no donkey in the zodiac, so "donkey year" is a day that will never exist (impossible date, since there is no "donkey year"), it is a time that will never come, the Year of the Donkey in English proverbs has another meaning:

donkeys years are a very long time This is derived from the words donkey and ears, y+ears is years. A donkey can eat worse than a horse and do a lot more work, but if the owner doesn't treat it right, it will play "donkey temper" or "donkey temper", that is, it is very "stubborn". Contains the meanings of staying, stupid, etc.: He has made an ass of himself.He makes jokes by doing stupid things. You silly ass!you idiot As stubborn as a mule, as stubborn as a mule "Mule" mule is born of jackass (male donkey) and mare (female horse). Donkeys are not horses" animals, "not donkeys are not horses" are unlike anything (unlike anything), that is, "four unlikes".

"" Hinny was born of Stallion (male horse) and Jenny (female ass), but she is a small and weak waste. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties of China, the ancients liked to imitate donkey bray (bray), but in English there was a saying "If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him." (Donkey brays at you, don't bark at it). The donkey in American comics refers to the Democratic Party, and the elephant refers to the Republican Party. dad July 21, 1974 P.S. Your three-day letter was received on the sixteenth.