Chapter 44 lincoln chestnut laugh

Dear Xiaowen: Your letters on the 18th and 19th were received on the 25th. The photo of you and your grandma at the Lincoln Memorial shows that your grandma looks very young and looks in her 40s.Lincoln behind you, his mother's mother and father, gave birth to her without marriage, such children are very smart, so Lincoln's intelligence was also influenced by his mother, although when his mother died, he was not yet To ten years old (not yet ten years old). Lincoln received less than one year of education in his life. His family was too poor, but he studied hard, and finally he was able to speak and write very clever English (but his English was always very bad).

There are many words for laughing in English, the most common one is smile, which means to smile, to smile ambiguously, and is more gentle.Sometimes it's a happy laugh, sometimes it's special, so pay attention to the adjective before it to decide what kind of laugh it is: There is a pleasant smile on her face. (She has a pleasant smile on her face.) There is an ironical smile on her face. (She makes an ironical smile.) She gives a wry smile. (She wry smile.) (a bitter smile is also a wry smile) He smiled a grim smile. (He smiled.) Chinese idioms also have: Smiling Tiger, a wicked person with a hypocritical smile

a smile of treachery or conceal a dagger behind a smile There is also the meaning of hiding a knife in a smile in English. Dad has seen a sentence A woman will laugh in your face and cut your throat..In addition, Shakespeare's Macbeth tragedy saw Theres daggers in mens smiles. , coincides with the Chinese idiom. Another English word for laugh is laugh, which is more severe than smile. There is an English sentence that expresses the difference between it and smile: A vulgar often laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh ．It means that ordinary people laugh a lot, but never smile; educated people smile a lot, but seldom laugh.

There is also an idiom in Chinese called "笑笑不除", which means "can't laugh or cry", which is equivalent to the English between tears and laughter. Lincoln failed to run for the senator. People asked him how he felt, and he said: I suppose that I feel very much like the overgrown boy who stumped his toe. (much like a big child's toes hurt.) People ask what does this mean? (How was that?) He explained: Well, when some one asked him how he felt, he said that he was hurt too bad to laugh and was too big to cry. (People asked him how he felt, he said he hurt I can’t laugh, and I’m too old to cry.) This is a very clever English sentence, Xiaowen, you have to memorize it.

dad September 27, 1974 two Dear Xiaowen: Do you remember the buckeye that Dad talked to you about on October 7th last year? Do you still remember the little squirrels and nuts I talked to you about on January 12 last year? There is a tree that is very similar to the oak tree, called a chestnut tree, and it is called a chestnut, and it bears chestnuts, also called a chestnut. Chest is a chest, and nut is a fruit in the core. You can buy sugar-fried chestnuts in Taipei City, and you can eat the fruit in the chest. It is delicious. Chestnut is a handsome tree, the wood can be made into planks and paper.The vitality is very strong, and it will last for a while after death. This is called "alive despite death".

There is a story that a monkey (monkey) wants to eat chestnuts in the fire, but it is too hot, so it tricks a cat to take it for it. Call: Pull chestnuts from fire.Or To pull out the chestnuts with the cats paw Because the cat was used by the monkey to become a fool, a pestilent, and a puppet, so: To make a cats-paw of a person It means to take advantage of someone. cats-paw or cats-paw—a person used by another to do something unpleasant or dangerous. There is another kind of tree similar to the chestnut tree, which bears large chestnuts and was used to feed horses (horse), so it is called horse-chestnut, and it is called horse chestnut in Chinese (with seven leaves). horse-chestnut, 1.a large shade tree having spreading branches, large leaves, clusters of showy, white flowers, and glossy, brown nuts resembling chestnuts. 2.the nut. 3.any tree or shrub of the same family as the horse If the word chestnut. horse-chestnut is reversed to become chestnut horse, it becomes a sorrel horse.

When Lincoln debated with Douglas (Stephen A. Douglas) (running for the U.S. Senate in 1858), Lincoln ridiculed Douglas for nonsense, saying that he A man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse .(a guy who wants to prove the buckeye is a sorrel horse). I have received your report card copy and six clipping pages. Dad is very happy with your good grades and rapid progress. dad February 15, 1975 Attachment; Dad didn't give you anything special because it's only the old calendar year.But your piano, Dad will definitely buy it for you in a short time. You ask grandma to buy a pair of leather slippers for dad.