{"id":4263,"date":"2019-11-11T00:12:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T00:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-wordsvocabulary\/yan-er-dao-ling-yan-er-dao-ling\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T00:12:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T00:12:05","slug":"yan-er-dao-ling-yan-er-dao-ling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/yan-er-dao-ling-yan-er-dao-ling\/","title":{"rendered":"Yan \u011br d\u00e0o l\u00edng \u3010\u63a9 \u8033 \u76d7 \u94c3\u3011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>o<em><\/em>nce upon a time, a thief stole a bell and tried to carry it away on his back. But the bell was too big and heavy. So, he decided to break it into pieces with a hammer to make it easier to carry. When he hit the bell, it made a loud noise. Afraid that someone might hear him breaking the bell, and try to steal it from him, he decided to plug his ears. If he couldn&#8217;t hear anything, nobody else could either. A decision as foolish as this is sometimes compared with burying one&#8217;s head in the sand.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shu\u01d0 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; zh\u014dng &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; l\u0101o &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; yu&egrave;<br \/>  \u3010 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6c34 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4e2d &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u635e &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6708 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u3011<br \/>  To try to fish the moon&#8217;s reflection in the water &#8212; describes an impractical or vain effort<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shu\u01d0 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; zh?ng &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; chu&aacute;n &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; g\u0101o<br \/>  \u3010 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6c34 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6da8 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u8239 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u9ad8 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u3011<br \/>  (Old Chinese saying) Literal translation: When the river rises, the boat goes up. Describes a natural reaction to something or a natural progression<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sh&ugrave;n &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shu\u01d0 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tu\u012b &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; zh\u014du<br \/>  \u3010 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u987a &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6c34 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u63a8 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u821f &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u3011<br \/>  To push the boat along with current &#8212; to go with the flow<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sh&ugrave;n &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; f\u0113ng &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sh\u01d0 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; du&ograve;<br \/>  \u3010 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u987a &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u98ce &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4f7f &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u8235 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u3011<br \/>  To trim one&#8217;s sails to the wind &#8212; to take one&#8217;s cue from changing conditions<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-229527690\"><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>once upon a time, a thief stole a bell and tried to carry it away on his back. But the<\/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":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-idiom","category-chinese-words-phrases"],"views":313,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}