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Chapter 39 Pigeon·囮子·Kaizi

Dear Xiaowen: Pigeons are generally called pigeons, but they are called doves in elegant usage, and small pigeons are also called doves. There are 290 species in total. Pigeons are the best at recognizing homes and will not get lost, so ancient people used pigeons to spread news. This kind of pigeons is called carrier pigeons.Those who fight in the United States are called the Hawks, and those who oppose the war are called the Doves, because doves are used as a symbol of peace, and doves are also good at fighting. Have you ever seen a bird drink water?The bird drank water, dipped its beak in the water, raised its head again, and swallowed.But pigeons are not like this. It drinks water in the same way as a horse, sticking its beak into the water to suck (sucking).

Incubation takes turns between the male and the female, and usually only two eggs are hatched.Males hatch during the day and females hatch at night.A total of seventeen days to hatch.The little pigeons are called squabs. They are blind and hairless when they are born, and they are ugly as hell.They are fed a kind of pigeons milk (pigeons milk) spit out from the mouths of male and female pigeons. In American slang, pigeon is used to refer to girls, and it is also used to refer to fools who are cheated to lose money when they gamble (called "Kaizi" in Chinese). Use a pigeon to deceive other pigeons. This pigeon is called a stool-pigeon, which is called "niaomei" or "囮九" or "囮燕" in Chinese. Stool means a bench, and the pigeon is tied to the stool to lure other pigeons, so it is called a stool-pigeon, otherwise it may run away with other pigeons instead.

The word decoy in English also has the same meaning, but it is used more broadly than stool-pigeon. It can be used to refer to "bait beasts", or to people, and it can also be used as a verb, such as: He had been decoyed across the frontier and arrested as a spy. (He had been decoyed across the frontier and arrested as a spy.) "Bait" is bait. Putting an earthworm on a fishhook is called bait (bait a hook with a worm), and the skin on a mousetrap is also called bait. Where there is bait, there is a trap. There are traps. Pigeon-English is also called Pidgin-English, which is Pidgin English. Pidgin is a place near Shanghai. The first Chinese to do business with the British could not speak English well. English is called Pidgin English.For example, "人山人海" should be huge crowds in English, but it is a joke to say people-mountain-people-sea, which is Pidgin English.

dad August 10, 1974 Attachment: Grandma's letter of July 25th was received on August 7th.
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