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Chapter 49 cat and mouse act

Dear Xiaowen: This is the best Christmas card Dad can buy around here.The eyes of the cat on the left are not printed well, and it seems to have become "double pupils".Pupil is the eyeball, and it is pupil in English, which is the same word as pupil.Double pupils are two pupils repeated together. In Chinese history, an emperor named Yu Shun had double pupils. There was also a failed hero named Xiang Yu who was also King of Chu. He also had double pupils. In fact, this is probably a An eye disease called "cataract" is not mysterious at all (coincidentally, cataract is called cataract in English). "Shuangtong Jianshui" is used to describe the good-looking, clear, beautiful eyes of a pretty girl's eyes.

cats-eye is an opal, a gemstone. cats-eye is a game of marbles played by children. This word is an American slang, and it is also because the beads are like cat's eyes. cats cradle is also a game played by children. In Chinese, it is called "picking thread" or "turning flower drum" or "weaving flower baskets" or "twisting and twisting". Have you ever played it? cat and mouse is also a game played by children. It is called "cat and mouse" in Chinese. (Cat and Mouse. This is a very good tag game. The players join hands in a circle. Two players are picked to be “cat” and “mouse”. The cat stands outside the circle and the mouse inside. The cat tries to catch the mouse. The rest of the players help or hinder the cat by raising or lowering their arms. The cat and mouse can run in and out of the circle under the other players arms. When the mouse is caught, other players are picked. ) Did you play in Yuren Primary School?

There is a funny word related to the word cat and mouse called Cat-and-mouse Act "cat catch mouse act".In the past, women had no right to vote or participate in political activities, so some women came out to make trouble, and the British government put these troublemakers in prison, and they went on a hunger strike (not eating, it is called fast in English, and eating breaks the fast of break, so Breakfast is called breakfast).So in 1913, the British Parliament passed the "Cat Catching Mouse Act", which stipulated that if she goes to prison without eating, she will be released, but if she eats outside, she will be arrested again, which means that the prisoner will not be allowed to speculate.Cats are used to catching mice and don't eat them right away. Cats let mice run away, run a few steps and catch them again. That's why this law has such a strange name.At the age of seventy-four, Gandhi of India announced that he would go on a hunger strike for 21 days in prison. The British government asked him to go out and go on a hunger strike. ), the British cat has nothing to do with this Indian mouse.

dad December 15, 1974
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