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Chapter 42 Sportsmanship?

Dear Xiaowen: The English word for poker is poker. It can also be called card, playing card or playing-card, but it cannot be called poker card. It is pidgin English to say poker card. Spade is a shovel. Poker has the shape of a black shovel. It is also called spade. It is called spade in China and has an idiom in English. Call a spade a spade. (Call a spade a spade, a spade is a spade.) It means "say what you are", "call it what you should call it", "tell the truth", "speak without concealment", "speak without beating around the bush".English and

①Calling a fig a fig and a tub a tub. ②Calling black, black, and white, white. (Black is called black, and white is called white. Black is black, and white is white.) If you don't call what should be called, it is "reversing black and white".In China, there is a story of "pointing at a deer as a horse", please tell it to you, grandma.Among Shakespeare's plays is The Taming of the Shrew, in which a husband tames his fierce wife.It means that the moon is called the sun, and the fierce wife finally gave in and followed the moon to call the sun. Calling something instead of what it should be is "the name does not match the reality" (the name does not match the reality).Confucius once had a sentence in "Four Books" (three books in the "Four Books" were written by Confucius, and the first book was written by Mencius. ) old old old old old old... ancestors), that sentence is

Gu, not gu.Goblet?Goblet? Gou is a wine glass with a horn. If there is no horn, it cannot be called a gou, so the meaning of this sentence is: The goblet with horns, no horns.Is this still called a gu?Is this still called a gu? This kind of sentence can have many variations. If Uncle Meng’s beard is cut off by the police, you can say: Uncle Beard has no beard.Is this still called Uncle Beard?Is this still called Uncle Beard? If some aunts are good and some aunts are bad, then the bad aunts will be questioned by Confucius: "Gu, no aunt. Aunt? Aunt?" Are you right? In English, sportsman has two meanings, one is like hunting, and the other is sportsmanship (sportsmanship is to compete fairly with people), but hunters do not conform to sportsmanship for the animals they hunt, so the duck in the comics It's strange: why are they called sportsman?Either the dictionary is wrong or these guys call it wrong.This is what "Auntie" means.Ha ha.

dad August 31, 1974 Attachment: Your letter on the 20th was received on the 28th.
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