{"id":4478,"date":"2019-11-19T02:32:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-phrases\/shi-fu-ling-jin-men-xiu-xing-zai-ge-ren-shi1fu-ling3-jin4men2-xiu1xing2-zai4-ge4ren2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T02:32:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T02:32:26","slug":"shi-fu-ling-jin-men-xiu-xing-zai-ge-ren-shi1fu-ling3-jin4men2-xiu1xing2-zai4-ge4ren2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/shi-fu-ling-jin-men-xiu-xing-zai-ge-ren-shi1fu-ling3-jin4men2-xiu1xing2-zai4-ge4ren2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5e08\u5085\u9886\u8fdb\u95e8\u4fee\u884c\u5728\u4e2a\u4eba \u2013 shi1fu ling3 jin4men2 xiu1xing2 zai4 ge4ren2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Word for word translation :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">teacher\/master &ndash; lead\/guide &ndash; enter door &ndash; practice\/put into motion &ndash; at\/in &ndash; individual<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Basic meaning : A teacher or master can  lead you to the door but it is you yourself that must take the action to  go through the door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think our English idiom &ldquo;you can lead a  horse to water, but you can&rsquo;t make him drink&rdquo; is a pretty good  equivalent.&nbsp; Being an English teacher for Chinese students, this must be  my favorite ancient Chinese proverb.&nbsp; I used to try to translate our  &ldquo;horse&rdquo; idiom and then explain what it meant in an effort to make sure  the students are aware that simply sitting in the chair during their  once\/twice a week class ISN&rsquo;T going to improve their English.&nbsp; Effort is  required on their part if they really want to improve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How happy I was to discover that they  have a Proverb that describes this exact phenomenon !&nbsp; This way they  have absolutely no excuse when they fail their exams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We provide the tools, but it&rsquo;s up to  them individually to use those tools and practice and review etc.&nbsp; They  can&rsquo;t blame the teacher when they are just down right lazy!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-447419997\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word for word translation :teacher\/master &ndash; lead\/guide &ndash; enter door &ndash; practice\/put into motion &ndash; at\/in &ndash; individual<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2834,34],"tags":[119,1059,1021,1079],"class_list":["post-4478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-allegories","category-chinese-phrases","tag-ancient-chinese","tag-english-teacher","tag-teacher","tag-the-teacher"],"views":238,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}