{"id":4520,"date":"2019-11-20T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2019-11-21T02:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:37:19","slug":"chinese-allegories-lesson-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-allegories-lesson-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese allegories Lesson 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>xi\u0101 zi di\u01cen d\u0113ng &ndash; b&aacute;i f&egrave;i l&agrave;<br \/>  \u778e\u5b50\u70b9\u706f &ndash; \u767d\u8d39\u8721<br \/>  Lighting a candle for a blind man &ndash; a waste of effort or time <\/p>\n<p>  l&oacute;ng zi de ?r duo &ndash; b?i sh&egrave;<br \/>  \u804b\u5b50\u7684\u8033\u6735 &ndash; \u6446\u8bbe<br \/>  A deaf man&#8217;s ears &#8211; they are merely ornamental; something done just for show <\/p>\n<p>  l? y&uacute; ch\u012b shu? &ndash; t\u016bn t\u016bn t? t? <br \/>  \u9ca4\u9c7c\u5403\u6c34 &ndash; \u541e\u541e\u5410\u5410<br \/>  A carp is drinking water &ndash; speaking hesitantly<\/p>\n<p>  hu&aacute;ng sh? l&aacute;ng g\u011bi j\u012b b&agrave;i ni&aacute;n &ndash; m&eacute;i \u0101n h\u01ceo x\u012bn<br \/>  \u9ec4\u9f20\u72fc\u7ed9\u9e21\u62dc\u5e74 &ndash; \u6ca1\u5b89\u597d\u5fc3<br \/>  A weasel makes a courtesy call to a chicken &ndash; to harbor evil intentions; to have ulterior motives<\/p>\n<p>  c&aacute;i feng de ch? zi &ndash; li&aacute;ng r&eacute;n b&ugrave; li&aacute;ng j? <br \/>  \u88c1\u7f1d\u7684\u5c3a\u5b50 &ndash; \u91cf\u4eba\u4e0d\u91cf\u5df1<br \/>  The tailor&#8217;s ruler always measures others but never the tailor himself; being critical of others but lenient on oneself <\/p>\n<p>  c&aacute;i feng zu&ograve; y\u012b &ndash; ji\u01ceng ji\u016b f\u0113n c&ugrave;n<br \/>  \u88c1\u7f1d\u505a\u8863 &ndash; \u8bb2\u7a76\u5206\u5bf8<br \/>  When a tailor makes clothes he pays great attention to measurement; taking care, being careful in doing things<\/p>\n<p>  h&eacute; shang d\u01ce s\u01cen &ndash; w&uacute; f\u01ce w&uacute; ti\u0101n <br \/>  \u548c\u5c1a\u6253\u4f1e &ndash; \u65e0\u6cd5\u65e0\u5929<br \/>  A Buddhist monk holding an umbrella &ndash; there is neither law nor heaven. This idiom means to be completely lawless. To understand why, you need to know that \u6cd5fa which means law is pronounced the same way as \u53d1fa which means hair, and that \u5929tian means both sky and heaven. <\/p>\n<p>  xi\u01ceo h&eacute; shang ni&agrave;n j\u012bng &ndash; y\u01d2u k\u01d2u w&uacute; x\u012bn<br \/>  \u5c0f\u548c\u5c1a\u5ff5\u7ecf &ndash; \u6709\u53e3\u65e0\u5fc3<br \/>  A young monk mumbles prayers. &ndash; Doing something without putting your heart into it<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1785682625\"><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>xi\u0101 zi di\u01cen d\u0113ng &ndash; b&aacute;i f&egrave;i l&agrave; \u778e\u5b50\u70b9\u706f &ndash; \u767d\u8d39\u8721 Lighting a candle for a blind man &ndash; a<\/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":[55],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-allegories","category-chinese-phrases","tag-chinese-allegories"],"views":341,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","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=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}